Apostolic Prefecture of Kompong-Cham
Kompongchamen(sis)
Apostolic prefecture · Latin Church · Kompong-Cham, Cambodia
The Apostolic Prefecture of Kompong Cham (Kampong Cham) is a Latin-rite missionary jurisdiction in eastern Cambodia, erected on 26 September 1968 when the Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh was divided into three. Pierre Suon Hangly, the first Cambodian apostolic prefect (2022), was appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Penh on 28 June 2025, leaving the prefecture vacant under his care as apostolic administrator.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic prefecture
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 26 September 1968
- Latin
- Kompongchamen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000480
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 3,600
- Population
- 5,400,000
- Catholic share
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 15
- Catholics per priest
- 240
- Extent
- 66,347 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
- Apostolic Administrator
- Pierre Suon Hangly
- Born
- 15 April 1971
- Birthplace
- Kandal
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
History
Eastern Cambodia is served by the Apostolic Prefecture of Kampong Cham, a territorial subdivision of the Roman Catholic Church. Its territory of 66,347 km2 spans the provinces of Kampong Cham, Kratié, Stung Treng, Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, Svay Rieng, Tboung Khmum and Prey Veng. As of 2002, of 4.2 million citizens, 3,460 belonged to the Catholic Church. The prefecture is organized into 24 parishes and counts 13 priests altogether.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Eglise Catholique, 184 Preah Ang Duong, Quarte Village 1, Sangkat Veal Vong, Kampong Cham, Cambodge
- Telephone
- 965.134.657
- [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].