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Diocese of Tanjung Selor

Tanjungseloren(sis)

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:

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

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.