Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta
Quetten(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Quetta, Pakistan
The Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta is a Latin rite missionary jurisdiction covering Balochistan province and the Kachhi region of Punjab, Pakistan, immediately subject to the Holy See. Erected as an apostolic prefecture on 9 November 2001, it was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 29 April 2010. Its seat is the Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Rosary in Quetta.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 April 2010
- Latin
- Quetten(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000446
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 30,518
- Population
- 7,296,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.4%
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 2,180
- Extent
- 347,188 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Sebastian Francis Shaw, O.F.M.
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
Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Rosary, Quetta stands in Quetta, 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.
History
Originally the Apostolic Prefecture of Quetta, the Apostolic Vicariate of Quetta (Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Quettensis) is a Latin Church missionary territory of the Catholic Church in Pakistan. Its bounds take in the civil province of Balochistan together with the Kachhi region of Punjab, Pakistan.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop's House, Zarghoon Road (Near High Court), P.O. Box 297, Quetta 87300, Pakistan
- Telephone
- [081]283.6964
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.