Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu

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Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu
Basic data
Country Malaysia
Diocesan bishop John Wong Soo Kau
Emeritus diocesan bishop John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw
founding 1855
surface 55,215 km²
Parishes 15 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Residents 2,000,000 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Catholics 140,000 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
proportion of 7%
Diocesan priest 28 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Catholics per priest 5,000
Friars 11 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
Religious sisters 144 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2008 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Malaysian
cathedral Sacred Heart Cathedral
Website www.kkdiocese.net
Suffragan dioceses Diocese of Keningau
Diocese of Sandakan
Sacred Heart Cathedral

The Archdiocese of Kota Kinabalu ( Latin Archidioecesis Kotakinabaluensis ) is in Malaysia located Roman Catholic archdiocese , based in Kota Kinabalu .

history

Pope Innocent XII. founded the Apostolic Vicariate of Borneo on January 16, 1692. The mission and the attempt were unsuccessful because the Sultan of Banjarmasin forbade all foreigners to penetrate inland. Pius IX founded the Apostolic Prefecture Labuan and Borneo on September 4, 1855 from cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia .

On February 5, 1927, it took the name, North Borneo Apostolic Prefecture . On February 14, 1952, she was promoted to the Vicariate Apostolic Office and took the name, Vicariate Apostolic Jesselton . On March 22, 1968, it took on its current name. Elevated to the diocese, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Kuching as a suffragan, it was raised on May 31, 1976. It was raised to the rank of Metropolitan Archdiocese on May 23, 2008.

It lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of the following dioceses:

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefect of Labuan and Borneo

Apostolic Prefect of North Borneo

Vicar Apostolic of Jesselton

  • James Buis MHM (February 14, 1952 - March 22, 1968)

Vicars Apostolic of Kota Kinabalu

Bishops of Kota Kinabalu

Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu

  • John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw (May 23, 2008 - December 1, 2012)
  • John Wong Soo Kau (since December 1, 2012)

statistics

year population priest Permanent deacons Religious Parishes
Catholics Residents % Total number
Diocesan priest
Religious priest 		Catholics per
priest 		Friars Religious sisters
1950 14,614 280,000 5.2 33 33 442 45
1970 72,028 601,488 12.0 57 12 45 1,263 58 81
1980 121.014 970,000 12.5 24 17th 7th 5,042 16 90 29
1990 180.694 1,425,350 12.7 26th 23 3 6,949 13 101 27
1999 182.391 2,415,200 7.6 32 30th 2 5,699 14th 146 19th
2000 187,609 2,577,799 7.3 38 35 3 4,937 8th 148 19th
2001 192,828 2,621,900 7.4 34 32 2 5,671 10 152 19th
2002 198.047 2,840,900 7.0 36 35 1 5,501 8th 139 19th
2003 202.008 2,981,900 6.8 36 35 1 5,611 8th 144 19th
2007 140,000 2,000,000 7.0 28 5,000 11 144 15th

See also

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