Diocese of Darwin
| Diocese of Darwin | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Australia |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Adelaide |
| Diocesan bishop | Charles Victor Emmanuel Gauci |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Daniel Hurley |
| founding | 1845 |
| surface | 1,352,212 km² |
| Parishes | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 234,555 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 46,911 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 20% |
| Diocesan priest | 3 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 23 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,804 |
| Permanent deacons | 3 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 37 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 46 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. Mary's, Star of the Sea |
| address | Bishop's House GPO Box 476 NT 0801; 2 St. John Court The Gardens Darwin NT 0820 Australia |
| Website | www.darwin.catholic.org.au |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Darwin (Latin Dioecesis Darvinensis , English Diocese of Darwin ) is in Australia located diocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Darwin .
It was founded in 1845 as the Apostolic Vicariate Essington from areas of the Archdiocese of Sydney , to which it is subject to this day as a suffragan . As early as May 27, 1847, it was named Victoria, but changed its name to Victoria-Palmerston on August 10, 1888, and to Darwin on March 29, 1938, which at the same time moved the bishopric from Victoria Darwin was connected.
Ordinaries
- Joseph (José María Benito) Serra y Juliá OSB , bishop from 1847 to 1849, then coadjutor bishop of Perth
- Rosendo Salvado OSB, bishop from 1849 to 1888, then Abbot of New Norcia
- Francis Xavier Gsell MSC , bishop from 1906 to 1948
- John Patrick O'Loughlin MSC, Bishop from 1949 to 1985
- Edmund Collins MSC, Bishop from 1986 to 2007
- Daniel Hurley , bishop from 2007 to 2018
- Charles Victor Emmanuel Gauci , bishop since 2018
