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Diocese of Sanggau

Sanggauen(sis)

The Diocese of Sanggau is a Latin Church diocese covering Sanggau and Sekadau regencies in West Kalimantan, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Pontianak. It was established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Sekadau in 1968 and promoted to the Diocese of Sanggau on June 8, 1982.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
8 June 1982
Latin
Sanggauen(sis)
Annuario code
001002898

The see in figures

Catholics
349,843
Population
519,958
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
67.3%
Priests
71
Catholics per priest
4,927
Extent
18,302 km²
Catholics per km²
19

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
Valentinus Saeng
Born
28 October 1969
Birthplace
Keramuk
Institute
CONGREGAZIONE DELLA PASSIONE DI GESÙ CRISTO (PASSIONISTI)

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 the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Sanggau Regency stands in Sanggau, 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 Pontianak

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Pontianak.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Pontianak in Indonesia, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Sanggauen(sis)) has its seat in the city of Sanggau.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Keuskupan, Jl. Jenderal Sudirman 43, Sanggau Kapuas-78512, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia
Telephone
[812]499.78.298; fax [0564]21.260

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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Sources

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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.