Diocese of Miri
Diocese of Miri | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Malaysia |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Kuching |
Diocesan bishop | Richard Ng |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Anthony Lee Kok Hin |
Vicar General | Francis Koleh |
founding | 1959 |
surface | 42,235 km² |
Parishes | 11 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 757,494 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 98,743 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 13% |
Diocesan priest | 19 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 2 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 4,702 |
Friars | 2 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 15 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Malaysian |
cathedral | St. Joseph's Cathedral |
Website | dioceseofmiri.blogspot.de |
The Diocese of Miri ( Latin Dioecesis Miriensis ) is in Malaysia located Roman Catholic diocese based in Miri .
history
The Diocese of Miri was on December 19, 1959 by Pope John XXIII. Established from the cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Kuching as the Apostolic Vicariate Miri . On May 31, 1976, the Apostolic Vicariate Miri was by Pope Paul VI. raised to the diocese and subordinated to the archdiocese of Kuching as a suffragan . The Diocese of Miri gave up on December 21, 1997 parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Brunei .
Ordinaries
Vicars Apostolic of Miri
- Anthony Denis Galvin MHM , 1960-1976
Bishops of Miri
- Anthony Denis Galvin MHM, 1976
- Anthony Lee Kok Hin , 1977-2013
- Richard Ng , since 2013