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Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu

Kotakinabaluen(sis)

The Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu is the Latin Catholic metropolitan see covering western Sabah in East Malaysia. It was erected as a diocese in 1976 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 2008, with Keningau and Sandakan as suffragans.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
23 May 2008
Latin
Kotakinabaluen(sis)
Patron
Saint Joseph
Annuario code
001001895

The see in figures

Catholics
250,255
Population
1,877,817
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
13.3%
Priests
43
Catholics per priest
5,820
Extent
55,215 km²
Catholics per km²
4.5

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

Archbishop
John Wong Soo Kau
Born
6 June 1968
Birthplace
Sandakan

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

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Kota Kinabalu stands in Kota Kinabalu, 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 Kota Kinabalu

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

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

History

In Sabah, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, the Catholic Church is led by the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu (Latin: Archdioecesis Kotakinabaluensis; Malay: Keuskupan Agung Kota Kinabalu; Mandarin: 哥打京那巴鲁总教区). No ecclesiastical territory in Malaysia is older; it climbed gradually from a prefecture to an archdiocese as its Catholic population grew. Its archiepiscopal seat is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Kota Kinabalu, and it keeps St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as its patron.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.