Diocese of Sibolga
Sibolgaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sibolga, Indonesia
The Diocese of Sibolga is a Latin Church diocese on the west coast of North Sumatra, including the Nias islands, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Medan. It was established as an apostolic prefecture in 1959 and elevated to a diocese on October 24, 1980.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 October 1980
- Latin
- Sibolgaën(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Therese of Lisieux
- Annuario code
- 001003053
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 202,885
- Population
- 2,407,080
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 8.4%
- Priests
- 102
- Catholics per priest
- 1,989
- Extent
- 26,413 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.7
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
- Fransiskus Tuaman Sinaga
- Born
- 22 November 1972
- Birthplace
- Penggalangan
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
St. Therese of Lisieux Cathedral stands in Sibolga, 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 Medan
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Medan.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MedanMedan
- Diocese of PadangPadang
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Sibolga, in the ecclesiastical province of Medan in Indonesia, is the seat of this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Sibolgaen(sis)).
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Jl. Ade Irma Suryani Nasution 27, Sibolga 22513, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
- Telephone
- [0631]21.291; fax 21.045
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.