Diocese of Rockhampton
Rockhamptonien(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Rockhampton, Australia
The Diocese of Rockhampton is a Latin Church suffragan see covering central Queensland, erected in 1882. Bishop Daniel Meagher was installed as its 11th bishop on 28 May 2026, succeeding Bishop Michael McCarthy.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 December 1882
- Latin
- Rockhamptonien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002762
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 95,000
- Population
- 372,000
- Catholic share
- 25.5%
- Priests
- 37
- Catholics per priest
- 2,568
- Extent
- 415,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Daniel Meagher
- Born
- 13 September 1950
- Birthplace
- Toowoomba
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
St Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton stands in Rockhampton, 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 Brisbane
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Brisbane.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BrisbaneBrisbane
- Diocese of CairnsCairns
- Diocese of ToowoombaToowoomba
- Diocese of TownsvilleTownsville
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Central Queensland is the territory of the Diocese of Rockhampton, a Latin Church see of the Catholic Church in Australia erected in 1882. It stands as a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Brisbane.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].