Diocese of Wewak
Diocese of Wewak | |
Basic data | |
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Country | Papua New Guinea |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Madang |
Diocesan bishop | Józef Roszyński SVD |
founding | July 25, 1913 |
surface | 36,917 km² |
Parishes | 48 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Residents | 375,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics | 229,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
proportion of | 61.1% |
Diocesan priest | 25 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious priest | 11 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Catholics per priest | 6.361 |
Friars | 31 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
Religious sisters | 72 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
cathedral | Christ the King Cathedral |
The Bistum Wewak ( lat. : Dioecesis Ueuakensis ) is in Papua New Guinea preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Wewak .
history
Pope Pius X founded the Apostolic Prefecture of Western Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land on July 25, 1913 from the division of the Apostolic Prefecture of Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land into the Apostolic Prefectures of Eastern Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land and Western Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land. On November 14, 1922, she took the name Apostolic Prefecture of Central New Guinea .
With the Breve Quae rei sacrae she was raised to the Apostolic Vicariate on August 22, 1931 . On May 15, 1952, with the bull Ad latius prolatandam, it was named Apostolic Vicariate Wewak. With the Apostolic Constitution Laeta Incrementa she was raised to the diocese on November 15, 1966.
It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:
- on May 15, 1952 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Aitape ;
- on June 18, 1959 to the Apostolic Vicariate Mount Hagen .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefects of the Western Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land
- Canisius Theodorus Gellings SS.CC. (August 19, 1913-1918)
- Adalberto Ottone Rielander SSCC (1918–1922)
Apostolic Prefects of Central New Guinea
- Teodosio Heikenrath SSCC (1922–1923)
- Josef Lörks SVD (June 19, 1928 - August 22, 1931)
Vicars Apostolic of Central New Guinea
- Josef Lörks SVD (August 22, 1931 - March 17, 1943)
- Leo Clement Andrew Arkfeld SVD (July 8, 1948 - May 15, 1952)
Vicar Apostolic of Wewak
- Leo Clement Andrew Arkfeld SVD (May 15, 1952 - November 15, 1966)
Bishops of Wewak
- Leo Clement Andrew Arkfeld SVD (November 15, 1966 - December 19, 1975, then Archbishop of Madang )
- Raymond Philip Kalisch SVD (April 24, 1980 - August 14, 2002)
- Anthony Joseph Burgess (August 14, 2002 - September 20, 2013)
- Józef Roszyński SVD (since February 6, 2015)
statistics
year | population | priest | Permanent deacons | Religious | Parishes | ||||||
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Catholics | Residents | % | Total number | Diocesan priest | Religious priest | Catholics per priest | Friars | Religious sisters | |||
1950 | 33,625 | 296,944 | 11.3 | 46 | 46 | 730 | 33 | ||||
1970 | 84,392 | 195.719 | 43.1 | 64 | 11 | 53 | 1,318 | 1 | 96 | 69 | |
1980 | 113,000 | 208,000 | 54.3 | 60 | 7th | 53 | 1,883 | 7th | 101 | 57 | |
1990 | 125,350 | 197,641 | 63.4 | 61 | 8th | 53 | 2,054 | 7th | 90 | 77 | |
1999 | 89,280 | 145.264 | 61.5 | 59 | 18th | 41 | 1,513 | 6th | 74 | 67 | |
2000 | 182,323 | 278.998 | 65.3 | 52 | 19th | 33 | 3,506 | 6th | 70 | 60 | |
2001 | 187,755 | 280.258 | 67.0 | 54 | 22nd | 32 | 3,476 | 6th | 69 | 77 | |
2002 | 193.174 | 288,968 | 66.8 | 59 | 24 | 35 | 3,274 | 6th | 72 | 60 | |
2003 | 193.937 | 292,597 | 66.3 | 50 | 25th | 25th | 3,878 | 5 | 62 | 60 | |
2004 | 195,950 | 295,700 | 66.3 | 44 | 23 | 21st | 4,453 | 4th | 46 | 68 | |
2010 | 210,000 | 344,000 | 61.0 | 37 | 22nd | 15th | 5,675 | 1 | 35 | 72 | 45 |
See also
Web links
- Entry on cbcpngsi.org (English)
- Entry on the diocese of Wewak on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on Giga-Catholic (English)