Diocese of Port Pirie
| Diocese of Port Pirie | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Australia |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Adelaide |
| Diocesan bishop | Karol Kulczycki SDS (appointed) |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Gregory O'Kelly SJ |
| founding | 1887 |
| surface | 978,823 km² |
| Parishes | 17 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 172.209 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 28,487 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 16.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 27 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 1 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,017 |
| Permanent deacons | 1 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 1 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 17 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | English |
| cathedral | St. Mark's Cathedral |
| address | PO Box 1206 28 Norman Street Port Pirie SA 5540 Australia |
| Website | http://www.adelaide.catholic.org.au/sites/DioceseofPortPirie/welcome |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Pirie (Latin Dioecesis Portus Piriensis , English Diocese of Port Pirie ) is in Australia located Roman Catholic diocese based in Port Pirie .
It was removed from the Archdiocese of Adelaide on May 10, 1887 and became independent as the Diocese of Port Augusta . As a suffragan still belonging to the ecclesiastical province of Adelaide, it changed its name to Port Pirie on June 7, 1951.
Ordinaries
- John O'Reilly (1887–1895, then Archbishop of Adelaide)
- James Maher (1896-1905)
- John Henry Norton (1906-1923)
- Andrew Killian (1924–1933, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Adelaide)
- Norman Thomas Gilroy (1934–1937, then Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney)
- John Joseph Lonergan (1938)
- Thomas Absolem McCabe (1938–1951, then Bishop of Wollongong)
- Bryan Gallagher (1952–1980)
- Francis Peter de Campo (1980-1998)
- Daniel Hurley (1998–2007, then Bishop of Darwin)
- Gregory O'Kelly SJ , 2009-2020
- Karol Kulczycki SDS , since 2020