Diocese of Kalay

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Diocese of Kalay
Basic data
Country Myanmar
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Mandalay
Diocesan bishop Felix Lian Khen Thang
founding 2010
surface 22,235 km²
Parishes 20 (2010)
Residents 1,373,918 (2010)
Catholics 49,165 (2010)
proportion of 3.6%
Diocesan priest 26 (2010)
Catholics per priest 1,891
Religious sisters 84 (2010)
rite Roman rite
cathedral Cathedral of St. Mary

The Bistum Kalay ( lat. : Dioecesis Kalayensis ) is an in Myanmar preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Kalay .

history

The diocese of Kalay was on May 22, 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. Established with the Apostolic Constitution Ad aptius from cessions of territory of the Diocese of Hakha and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mandalay as a suffragan . First Bishop was Felix Lian Khen Thang .

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Individual evidence

  1. erezione della Diocese of Kalay (Myanmar) e nomina del primo Vescovo , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of 22 May, 2010.
  2. Benedictus XVI: Const. Apost. Ad aptius , AAS 102 (2010), n.8, p. 442s.