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Diocese of Banjarmasin

Bangiarmasin(us)

Latin rite diocese in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1938 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Samarinda. Its cathedral is the Holy Family Cathedral in Banjarmasin and the current ordinary is Bishop Victorius Dwiardy, O.F.M. Cap., appointed in 2023.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
22 August 1973
Latin
Bangiarmasin(us)
Annuario code
001000818

The see in figures

Catholics
17,051
Population
3,680,000
Catholic share
0.5%

of the people living within its bounds

Extent
37,530 km²
Catholics per km²
0.5

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
Victorius Dwiardy
Born
14 December 1968
Birthplace
Sebalos
Institute
ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI CAPPUCCINI

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

Holy Family Cathedral, Banjarmasin stands in Banjarmasin, 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 Samarinda

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Samarinda.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Samarinda in Indonesia, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Bangiarmasin(a)) has its seat in the city of Banjarmasin.

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.

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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].