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Suffragan diocese Bunbury, Australia

Diocese of Bunbury

Bumburien(sis)

Latin Church

The Diocese of Bunbury covers the southwest of Western Australia and was erected by Pope Pius XII on 12 November 1954. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Perth, it is led by Bishop George Kolodziej SDS, installed on 20 March 2025.

On the map

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The address the register holds for St Patrick's Cathedral, Bunbury, in Bunbury, Australia.

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Established
1954
Catholics
58,522
Priests
32
Territory
184,000 km²

Parishes and churches

52 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
George Kolodziej SDS
Born
17 May 1968
Birthplace
Dobra
Institute
SOCIETÀ DEL DIVIN SALVATORE (SALVATORIANI) (S.D.S.)

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The cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, Bunbury stands in Bunbury, 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

Serving the South West and Great Southern regions of Western Australia, the Diocese of Bunbury is a Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. Within the Australian hierarchy it belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Perth, as a suffragan of that metropolitan archdiocese.

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