Diocese of Bandung
Bandungen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bandung, Indonesia
The Diocese of Bandung is a Latin Church diocese covering West Java in Indonesia, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1932 and raised to a diocese in 1961. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Jakarta.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 January 1961
- Latin
- Bandungen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Peter
- Annuario code
- 001000808
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 87,247
- Population
- 27,018,000
- Catholic share
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 108
- Catholics per priest
- 808
- Extent
- 24,449 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.6
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
- Antonius Subianto Bunyamin
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. Peter's Cathedral stands in Bandung, 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 Jakarta
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Jakarta.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BogorBogor
- Archdiocese of JakartaJakarta
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
On the island of Java in Indonesia, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung (Latin: Bandungen(sis)) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Jakarta. Its episcopal cathedral is Katedral Santo Petrus (St. Peter's cathedral), in the city of Bandung, Jawa Barat.
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].