Suffragan diocese Sandakan, Malaysia
Diocese of Sandakan
Sandakanan(us)
Latin Church
The Diocese of Sandakan is a Latin Catholic suffragan see of Kota Kinabalu covering the east coast of Sabah in East Malaysia. It was erected in 2007 and has been led by its founding bishop, Julius Dusin Gitom, since that year.
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- Established
- 2007
- Catholics
- 59,435
- Priests
- 10
- Territory
- 43,657 km²
Parishes and churches
4 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St MarySandakan · CathedralView parish
- Holy TrinityTawauView parish
- St DominicBahagian SandakanView parish
- St MartinTelupidView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Julius Dusin Gitom
- Born
- 14 October 1957
- Birthplace
- Kampung Lokos
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The cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral, Sandakan stands in Sandakan, 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.
History
The east coast of Sabah, taking in the Sandakan and Tawau divisions of East Malaysia, is entrusted to the Diocese of Sandakan (Dioecesis Sandakaanus; Keuskupan Sandakan: 山打根教区), a Latin Catholic jurisdiction suffragan to the Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu. The diocese is organized into five parishes (Sandakan, Beluran, Lahad Datu, Telupid and Tawau) and one mission district (Paitan).