Archdiocese of Bangkok
| Archdiocese of Bangkok | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | Thailand |
| Diocesan bishop | Francis Xavier Kriengsak Cardinal Kovitvanit |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Michael Michai Cardinal Kitbunchu |
| founding | 1966 |
| surface | 18,831 km² |
| Parishes | 55 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 13,513,698 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 118,654 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 0.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 135 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 103 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 499 |
| Friars | 247 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 423 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Thai |
| cathedral | Assumption Cathedral |
| Website | www.catholic.or.th |
| Suffragan dioceses |
Diocese of Chanthaburi Diocese of Chiang Mai Diocese of Chiang Rai Diocese of Nakhon Sawan Diocese of Ratchaburi Diocese of Surat Thani |
The in Thailand located Archdiocese of Bangkok ( lat. : Archidioecesis Bangkokensis ) based in Bangkok was already in 1662 as Apostolic Vicariate of Siam from areas of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tonkin and Cochin -founded. Its seat, however, was initially in the then Siamese capital Ayutthaya .
On September 10, 1841, the vicariate was divided into Ostsiam and Westsiam . After hiving off its own apostolic vicariate for Laos in 1899, "East Siam" took on the name of the Apostolic Vicariate Bangkok on December 3, 1924. At that time it had an area of 200,000 km².
From their establishment in the 17th to the middle of the 20th century, with a few exceptions, the apostolic vicars were French missionaries of the Paris Mission . The first apostolic vicar was Louis Laneau , who suggested the Siamese King Narai in 1684 to send an embassy to France. From 1841 to 1862 the Apostolic Vicariate was headed by Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix , who had intensive correspondence with King Mongkut and who developed one of the first western dictionaries of Thai.
The apostolic vicariate was elevated to an archdiocese on December 18, 1965 and is a metropolitan bishopric over the five suffragan dioceses of Chanthaburi , Chiang Mai , Chiang Rai , Nakhon Sawan , Ratchaburi and Surat Thani .
See also
Web links
- Website of the Archdiocese of Bangkok
- Entry on the Archdiocese of Bangkok on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on Giga-Catholic (English)
