Archdiocese of Bangkok
Bangkoken(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Bangkok, Thailand
Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese for Bangkok, Thailand, tracing its origin to the Apostolic Vicariate of Siam erected in 1662 and elevated to archdiocese when the Thai hierarchy was established in 1965. Its seat is Assumption Cathedral in Bangkok and it heads one of Thailand's two ecclesiastical provinces.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 December 1965
- Latin
- Bangkoken(sis)
- Patron
- Nossa Senhora da Assunção
- Annuario code
- 001000812
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 115,945
- Population
- 13,226,721
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.9%
- Priests
- 247
- Catholics per priest
- 469
- Extent
- 18,831 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.2
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
- Francis Xavier Vira Arpondratana
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
Assumption Cathedral, Bangkok stands in Bangkok, 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 Bangkok
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of ChanthaburiChanthaburi
- Diocese of Chiang MaiChiang Mai
- Diocese of Chiang RaiChiang Rai
- Diocese of Nakhon SawanNakhon Sawan
- Diocese of RatchaburiRatchaburi
- Diocese of Surat ThaniSurat Thani
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Thailand's capital gives its name to the Archdiocese of Bangkok (Latin: Archidiœcesis Bangkokensis, Thai: อัครสังฆมณฑลกรุงเทพฯ), a Latin Catholic archdiocese whose bishop's seat is the Assumption Cathedral, Bangkok.
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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.