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Diocese of Kontum

Kontumen(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Kontum, Vietnam

The Latin rite Diocese of Kon Tum in Vietnam's Central Highlands was erected as an Apostolic Vicariate on 18 January 1932 and elevated to a diocese on 24 November 1960. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hue, its cathedral is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kon Tum.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
24 November 1960
Latin
Kontumen(sis)
Patron
Saint Étienne-Théodore Cuenot
Annuario code
001001889

The see in figures

Catholics
394,274
Population
2,138,500
Catholic share
18.4%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
103
Catholics per priest
3,828
Extent
25,187 km²
Catholics per km²
16

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
Aloysius Gonzaga Nguyen Hung Vi

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

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Kon Tum stands in Kontum, 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 Hue

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Hue.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

First erected as a Vicariate Apostolic on January 18, 1932, and elevated to a diocese on November 24, 1960, the Diocese of Kon Tum (Latin: Dioecesis Kontumensis) surrounds the city of Kon Tum and spans 25,728 km2 of central Vietnam as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Huế. In 1967 part of its territory was detached to form the new Diocese of Ban Mê Thuột. More than 16% of the million people living in its area are Roman Catholics, many of them members of ethnic minorities. Aloysius Gonzaga Nguyễn Hùng Vị has been bishop since 2015.

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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

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].