Diocese of Wewak

Ueuaken(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Wewak, Papua New Guinea

The Diocese of Wewak is a Latin rite diocese covering East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Madang. It was elevated to a diocese on 15 November 1966 in the reorganization of the Papua New Guinea hierarchy. Its seat is Christ the King Cathedral in Wewak.

The see

Rank: Suffragan diocese
Tradition: Latin Church
Erected: 15 November 1966
Latin: Ueuaken(sis)
Annuario code: 001000149

The see in figures

Catholics: 241,000
Population: 502,000
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds: 48.0%
Priests: 31
Catholics per priest: 7,774
Extent: 36,917 km²
Catholics per km²: 6.5

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

Bishop: Jozef Roszynski, S.V.D.

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

Christ the King Cathedral, Wewak stands in Wewak, 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 Madang

A suffragan of Madang.

The sees of this province:

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

How to reach it

Diocesan offices: Chancery Office, P.O. Box 107, Wewak, E.S.P. 531, Papua New Guinea
Telephone: 456-1675; fax 456-2573

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.