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Metropolitan see Perth, Australia

Archdiocese of Perth

Perthen(sis)

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Perth is the metropolitan see for Western Australia, with suffragan dioceses of Broome, Bunbury, and Geraldton. Erected in 1845 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese in 1913, it is led by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, SDB, appointed in 2012.

On the map

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The address the register holds for St Mary's Cathedral (Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Perth, in Perth, Australia.

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Established
1845
Catholics
527,450
Priests
163
Territory
471,118 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Timothy Costelloe, SDB

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The cathedral

St Mary's Cathedral (Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary), Perth stands in Perth, 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

Western Australia's Greater Perth, Goldfields-Esperance, Peel and Wheatbelt regions form the territory of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Perth, a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Australia. The metropolitan archbishop, currently Timothy Costelloe, appointed in February 2012, is seated at St Mary's Cathedral in Perth.

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