Apostolic Vicariate of Luang Prabang
Luangen(sis) Prabangen(sis)
Apostolic vicariate · Latin Church · Luang Prabang, Laos
Latin-rite apostolic vicariate in northern Laos, split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Vientiane on March 1, 1963, covering six northern provinces. The see has been vacant since 1975 and entrusted to apostolic administrators; Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.Dei, has served as apostolic administrator since November 30, 2019. Its former Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Luang Prabang has been secularized, leaving the vicariate without a cathedral.
The see
- Rank
- Apostolic vicariate
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 March 1963
- Latin
- Luangen(sis) Prabangen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000423
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,410
- Population
- 1,467,154
- Catholic share
- 0.2%
- Priests
- 3
- Catholics per priest
- 803
- Extent
- 83,700 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Vicar Apostolic
- Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun
- Born
- 5 April 1944
- Birthplace
- Bonha-Louang
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
de la Inmaculada Concepción stands in Luang Prabang, 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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catholic Center, St. 12 (442/18), Vieng Mai Village, Luang Prabang, Laos
- Telephone
- [020]555.56.018
- [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].