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Basic data
Country Indonesia
Diocesan bishop Vincentius Sensi Potokota
Vicar General Yosef Seran SVD
founding 1913
surface 5,084 km²
Parishes 54 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Residents 468.185 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Catholics 444.108 (December 31, 2008 / AP2009 )
proportion of 94.9%
Diocesan priest 88 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Religious priest 76 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 2,708
Friars 165 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters 326 ( 12/31/2008 / AP2009 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Indonesian
cathedral Gereja Katedral Kristus Raja (Christkönigskath.)
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Denpasar
Diocese of Larantuka
Diocese of Maumere
Diocese of Ruteng
Cathedral in the end

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ende ( Latin Archidioecesis Endehenus ) is in Indonesia located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in the end .

history

The Archdiocese of Ende was established on September 16, 1913 by Pope Pius X. from cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia as the Apostolic Prefecture of the Lesser Sunda Islands . The Lesser Sunda Islands Apostolic Prefecture was founded on March 12, 1922 by Pope Pius XI. raised to the apostolic vicariate . The Apostolic Vicariate Lesser Sunda Islands gave up parts of its territory on May 25, 1936 to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Dutch Timor . Another assignment of territory took place on July 10, 1950 to establish the Apostolic Prefecture Denpasar . On March 8, 1951, the Vicariate Apostolic Lesser Sunda Islands gave parts of its territory to establish the Vicariate Apostolic Larantuka and Ruteng . At the same time the Apostolic Vicariate Lesser Sunda Islands was renamed the Apostolic Vicariate Endeh . The Apostolic Vicariate Endeh gave on October 20, 1959 parts of its territory to establish the Apostolic Prefecture Weetebula .

On January 3, 1961, the Apostolic Vicariate Endeh was by Pope John XXIII. elevated to an archbishopric with the Apostolic Constitution Quod Christ . The Archdiocese of Endeh was renamed the Archdiocese of Ende on May 14, 1974 . On December 14, 2005, the Archdiocese gave up parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Maumere .

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of the Lesser Sunda Islands

  1. Petrus Noyen SVD , 1913-1921

Vicars Apostolic of the Lesser Sunda Islands / of Endeh

  1. Arnold Verstraelen SVD, 1922-1932
  2. Heinrich Leven SVD, 1933–1950
  3. Antoine Hubert Thijssen SVD, 1951–1961, then Bishop of Larantuka

Archbishops of Endeh / Ende

  1. Gabriel Wilhelmus Manek SVD, 1961–1968
  2. Donatus Djagom SVD, 1968-1996
  3. Longinus da Cunha , 1996-2006
  4. Vincentius Sensi Potokota , since 2007

See also

Web links

Commons : Archdiocese of Ende  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ioannes XXIII: Const. Apost. Quod Christ , AAS 48 (1956), n.5, p. 244ss.