Diocese of Larantuka
Larantukan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Larantuka, Indonesia
Latin rite diocese covering eastern Flores and Lembata, Indonesia, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1951 and raised to a diocese in 1961, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Ende. Its cathedral is the Reinha Rosari Cathedral in Larantuka and the current ordinary, Bishop Yohanes Hans Monteiro, was appointed by Pope Leo XIV on November 22, 2025.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 January 1961
- Latin
- Larantukan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady, Queen of the Rosary (Reinha Rosari)
- Annuario code
- 001001957
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 256,280
- Population
- 274,373
- Catholic share
- 93.4%
- Extent
- 4,024 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 64
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
- Yohanes Hans Monteiro
- Born
- 15 April 1971
- Birthplace
- Larantuka
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
Reinha Rosari Cathedral (Cathedral of the Queen of the Rosary), Larantuka stands in Larantuka, 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:
- Diocese of DenpasarDenpasar
- Archdiocese of EndeEnde
- Diocese of Labuan BajoLabuan Bajo
- Diocese of MaumereMaumere
- Diocese of RutengRuteng
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Ende, in Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands, the Diocese of Larantuka (Latin: Dioecesis Larantukana) is a suffragan Latin see. Its episcopal cathedral, Katedral Reinha Rosari, dedicated to Mary as Queen of the Rosary, stands in the city of Larantuka in Nusa Tenggara Timur.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Keuskupan, Jl. Mgr. Miguel Rangel 1-2, San Domingo, Larantuka 86213, Flores Timur, Indonesia
- Telephone
- [0383]21.170; fax 21.443
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].