Diocese of Jayapura
Iayapuraën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jayapura, Indonesia
Latin rite diocese in Papua, Indonesia, established in 1949 as the Apostolic Prefecture of Hollandia and raised to a diocese in 1966, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Merauke. The current ordinary, Bishop Yanuarius Theofilus Matopai You, was appointed in 2022 and is the first priest from West Papua to become a bishop in Indonesia.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 August 1973
- Latin
- Iayapuraën(sis)
- Patron
- Christ the King
- Annuario code
- 001001726
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 65,180
- Population
- 858,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 7.6%
- Priests
- 75
- Catholics per priest
- 869
- Extent
- 115,349 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.6
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Yanuarius Teofilus Matopai You
- Born
- 1 January 1961
- Birthplace
- Uwebutu
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Christ the King, Jayapura stands in Jayapura, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Merauke
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Merauke.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AgatsAgats
- Diocese of Manokwari–SorongManokwari–Sorong
- Archdiocese of MeraukeMerauke
- Diocese of TimikaTimika
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Jayapura is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Iayapuraen(sis)), part of the ecclesiastical province of Merauke in Indonesia.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Keuskupan, Jl. Kesehatan 6, Dok II, Jayapura 99112, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
- Telephone
- [0967]533.092; 536.411; fax 536.427
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.