Diocese of Alotau-Sideia
Alotaun(us)-Sideian(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea
The Diocese of Alotau-Sideia is a Latin rite diocese covering Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Port Moresby. Erected in 1946 as the Prefecture Apostolic of Samarai from the Vicariate Apostolic of Papua, it became the Diocese of Alotau-Sideia in 1975. Its seat is the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Alotau.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 April 1975
- Latin
- Alotaun(us)-Sideian(us)
- Patron
- Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001000657
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 57,327
- Population
- 294,919
- Catholic share
- 19.4%
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 2,293
- Extent
- 20,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.9
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
- Jacek Piotr Tendej, C.M.
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
Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Alotau stands in Alotau-Sideia, 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 Port Moresby
A suffragan of Port Moresby.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Port MoresbyPort Moresby
- Diocese of BereinaBereina
- Diocese of Daru-KiungaDaru-Kiunga
- Diocese of KeremaKerema
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin Catholic suffragan see within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Port Moresby, the Diocese of Alotau-Sideia still depends on the Roman Congregation for the Missions Propaganda Fide. The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Alotau, Milne Bay Province, serves as its cathedral episcopal see.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 105, Alotau, Milne Bay Province 211, Papua New Guinea
- Telephone
- 790.67.560; fax 641.13.25
- [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].