Diocese of Sanggau
Sanggauen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sanggau, Indonesia
The Diocese of Sanggau is a Latin Church diocese covering Sanggau and Sekadau regencies in West Kalimantan, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Pontianak. It was established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Sekadau in 1968 and promoted to the Diocese of Sanggau on June 8, 1982.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 June 1982
- Latin
- Sanggauen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002898
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 349,843
- Population
- 519,958
- Catholic share
- 67.3%
- Extent
- 18,302 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 19
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
- Valentinus Saeng
- Born
- 28 October 1969
- Birthplace
- Keramuk
- Institute
- CONGREGAZIONE DELLA PASSIONE DI GESÙ CRISTO (PASSIONISTI)
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
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Sanggau Regency stands in Sanggau, 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 Pontianak
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Pontianak.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of KetapangKetapang
- Archdiocese of PontianakPontianak
- Diocese of SintangSintang
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Pontianak in Indonesia, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Sanggauen(sis)) has its seat in the city of Sanggau.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Keuskupan, Jl. Jenderal Sudirman 43, Sanggau Kapuas-78512, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia
- Telephone
- [812]499.78.298; fax [0564]21.260
- [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].