Diocese of Chiang Rai
Chiangraien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chiang Rai, Thailand
Latin rite diocese in far northern Thailand, erected in 2018 by splitting the Diocese of Chiang Mai; it is Thailand's newest diocese. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bangkok, its seat is the Nativity of Our Lady Cathedral in Chiang Rai.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 April 2018
- Latin
- Chiangraien(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001005083
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 18,062
- Population
- 2,683,794
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.7%
- Priests
- 44
- Catholics per priest
- 411
- Extent
- 37 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 488
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
- Joseph Vuthilert Haelom
- Born
- 17 December 1951
- Birthplace
- Lamsai
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
Nativity of Our Lady Cathedral, Chiang Rai stands in Chiang Rai, 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
A suffragan of Bangkok.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BangkokBangkok
- Diocese of ChanthaburiChanthaburi
- Diocese of Chiang MaiChiang Mai
- 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
Also in northern Thailand, the Diocese of Chiang Rai (Dioecesis Chiangraiensis) is a Latin Catholic suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bangkok. It spans 37,839 km2 across four provinces, Chiang Rai, Nan, Phayao and Phrae, plus the Ngao District of Lampang Province, and is organized into 16 parishes with 47 priests in all. As of 2018, Catholics numbered 18,062 among the area's 2.684 million citizens.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- 46 Mu 19 Phahonyothin Road, Robwiang Sub-district Mueang District, Chiang Rai 57000, Thailand
- Telephone
- [053]711.281; fax 711.283
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.