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Suffragan diocese Port Pirie, Australia

Diocese of Port Pirie

Portus Pirien(sis)

The Diocese of Port Pirie is a Latin Church suffragan see covering the northern two-thirds of South Australia, erected in 1887 as the Diocese of Port Augusta and renamed in 1951 when the see moved to Port Pirie. Bishop Karol Kulczycki, SDS, has led the diocese since 2020.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for St Mark's Cathedral, Port Pirie, in Port Pirie, Australia.

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Established
1887
Catholics
28,653
Priests
21
Territory
978,823 km²

Parishes and churches

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

This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.

The bishop

Bishop
Karol Kulczycki, SDS

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The cathedral

St Mark's Cathedral, Port Pirie stands in Port Pirie, 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

Erected in 1887, the Diocese of Port Pirie is a Latin Church jurisdiction in Australia and a suffragan within the province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Adelaide. Its territory takes in the Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas, the Flinders Ranges, the Nullarbor Plain, and the Mid and Far North regions of South Australia.