Diocese of Wabag
Uabagan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Wabag, Papua New Guinea
The Diocese of Wabag is a Latin rite diocese covering Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mount Hagen. It was erected as a diocese in 1982 and spans about 11,704 square kilometers in the western highlands.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 March 1982
- Latin
- Uabagan(us)
- Annuario code
- 001000132
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 79,650
- Priests
- 25
- Catholics per priest
- 3,186
- Extent
- 11,704 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 6.8
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
- Justin Ain Soongie
- Born
- 2 June 1973
- Birthplace
- Tsikiro
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
Good Shepherd Cathedral stands in Wabag, 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 Mount Hagen
A suffragan of Mount Hagen.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Mount HagenMount Hagen
- Diocese of GorokaGoroka
- Diocese of KundiawaKundiawa
- Diocese of MendiMendi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, P.O. Box 191, Wabag, Enga Province 291, Papua New Guinea
- Telephone
- 547-1096; fax 547-1230
- [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].