Diocese of Pangkalpinang
Pangkalpinangen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Pangkalpinang, Indonesia
The Diocese of Pangkalpinang is a Latin Church diocese covering the Bangka Belitung Islands and Riau Islands, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Palembang. It was established as an apostolic prefecture in 1923 and promoted to a diocese on January 3, 1961.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 January 1961
- Latin
- Pangkalpinangen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002533
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 55,421
- Population
- 3,495,000
- Catholic share
- 1.6%
- Extent
- 27,021 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.1
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
- Adrianus Sunarko
- Born
- 7 December 1966
- Birthplace
- Merauke
- Institute
- ORDINE FRANCESCANO FRATI MINORI
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 Cathedral stands in Pangkalpinang, 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 Palembang
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Palembang.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of PalembangPalembang
- Diocese of TanjungkarangTanjungkarang
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
On the Bangka Belitung Islands of Indonesia, the Diocese of Pangkal-Pinang (Latin: Pangkalpinangen(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Palembang, while depending on the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal cathedral, Katedral Santo Yosep, dedicated to Saint Joseph, stands in the city of Pangkal-Pinang on Bangka Island.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Keuskupan Pangkalpinang, Jalan Batu Kadera 545A, Kelurahan Semabung Lama, 33147 Pangkalpinang, Bangka, Indonesia
- Telephone
- e fax [0717]43.46.01; fax 42.45.92
- [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].