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Diocese of Denpasar

Denpasaren(sis)

Latin rite diocese covering Bali and West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, established as an apostolic prefecture in 1950 and promoted to a diocese in 1961, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Ende. Its cathedral is the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Denpasar and the current ordinary is Bishop Silvester Tung Kiem San, appointed in 2008.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
3 January 1961
Latin
Denpasaren(sis)
Patron
Holy Spirit
Annuario code
001001289

The see in figures

Catholics
32,083
Population
9,407,285
Catholic share
0.3%

of the people living within its bounds

Extent
25,786 km²
Catholics per km²
1.2

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
Sylvester Tung Kiem San

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 Spirit Cathedral, Denpasar stands in Denpasar, 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 Ende

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ende.

The sees of this province:

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

History

Covering the predominantly Hindu province of Bali together with the mostly Muslim province of West Nusa Tenggara, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Denpasar (Latin: Denpasaren(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Ende in Indonesia. Its see is at Denpasar, the capital city of Bali.

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].