Diocese of Wewak

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Diocese of Wewak
Basic data
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:

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of the Western Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land

Apostolic Prefects of Central New Guinea

Vicars Apostolic of Central New Guinea

Vicar Apostolic of Wewak

  • Leo Clement Andrew Arkfeld SVD (May 15, 1952 - November 15, 1966)

Bishops of Wewak

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
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

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