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Diocese of Tanjungkarang

Tangiungkarangan(us)

The Diocese of Tanjungkarang is a Latin Catholic see in Lampung, Indonesia, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1952 and promoted to a diocese in 1961. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Palembang and is led by Bishop Vinsensius Setiawan Triatmojo.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
22 August 1973
Latin
Tangiungkarangan(us)
Annuario code
001003167

The see in figures

Catholics
75,789
Population
7,269,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
1.0%
Priests
74
Catholics per priest
1,024
Extent
36,000 km²
Catholics per km²
2.1

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
Vinsensius Setiawan Triatmojo
Born
5 April 1971
Birthplace
Sindang Jati

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 (Katedral Kristus Raja), Tanjungkarang stands in Tanjungkarang, 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 Palembang

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Palembang.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Within Indonesia's ecclesiastical province of Palembang lies the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tanjungkarang (Latin: Tangiungkarangan(us)), which has its seat in the city of Tanjungkarang.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Sekretariat Keuskupan, Jl. Way Lubuk 2-4, Pahoman, 35127 Bandar Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia
Telephone
[0721]252.531

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.