Diocese of Tanjung Selor
Tanjungseloren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tanjung Selor, Indonesia
The Diocese of Tanjung Selor is a Latin Catholic see in North Kalimantan, Indonesia, erected in 2002 from territory of the Diocese of Samarinda. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Samarinda and has been led by Bishop Paulinus Yan Olla, M.S.F., since 2018.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 December 2001
- Latin
- Tanjungseloren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001003168
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 54,479
- Population
- 482,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 11.3%
- Priests
- 30
- Catholics per priest
- 1,816
- Extent
- 96,630 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
- Paulinus Yan Olla
- Born
- 22 June 1963
- Birthplace
- Seom-Eban
- Institute
- MISSIONARI DELLA SACRA FAMIGLIA
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 Assumption (St. Mary Assumpta Cathedral), Tanjung Selor stands in Tanjung Selor, 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 Samarinda
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Samarinda.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BanjarmasinBanjarmasin
- Diocese of PalangkarayaPalangkaraya
- Archdiocese of SamarindaSamarinda
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Tanjung Selor, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Tanjungseloren(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Samarinda in Indonesia.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Keuskupan, Jl. Jelarai, rt 47 rw 17, Bulungan, Tanjung Selor 77212, Kalimantan Utara, Indonesia
- Telephone
- [0822]2115.3109
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.