Archdiocese of Nouméa

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Archdiocese of Nouméa
Map of the Archdiocese of Noumea
Basic data
Country New Caledonia ( France )
Ecclesiastical province Nouméa
Diocesan bishop Michel-Marie Calvet SM
Vicar General Roch Apikaoua
surface 19,103 km²
Parishes 29 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Residents 245,000 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics 131,000 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
proportion of 53.5%
Diocesan priest 15 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious priest 25 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Catholics per priest 3,275
Permanent deacons 11 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Friars 46 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
Religious sisters 94 ( 12/31/2007 / AP2009 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Saint-Joseph de Nouméa
address BP 3 4
rue Mgr-Fraysse
98845 Noumea
Nouvelle-Caledonie, Oceanie
Website ddec.nc/
Suffragan dioceses Port-Vila
Wallis and Futuna

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nouméa ( lat. : Archidioecesis Numeanus ) is in New Caledonia , one to France related archipelago in the Pacific Ocean , located Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church . The seat is in Nouméa .

history

On July 23, 1847, the diocese was the Apostolic Vicariate of New Caledonia ("Novae Caledoniae") by Pope Pius IX. Founded from the Apostolic Vicariate Central Oceania; the first vicar apostolic was Guillaume Douarre of the religious order of the Marianists , who are still involved in the archbishopric today. 1966 the vicariate was by Pope Paul VI. raised to an archbishopric. The first archbishop was Pierre-Paul-Émile Martin SM.

Dioceses that include Wallis and Futuna or Vanuatu are assigned as suffragans .

Cathedral in the center of Nouméa

Ordinaries

  1. Guillaume Douarre SM (1847-1853)
  2. Pierre Rougeyron SM (1855–1873)
  3. Pierre-Ferdinand Vitte SM (1873–1880), titular bishop of Anastasiopolis
  4. Alphonse-Hilarion Fraysse SM (1880–1905)
  5. Claude-Marie Chanrion SM (1905–1937)
  6. Edoardo Bresson SM (1937-1956)
  7. Pierre-Paul-Émile Martin SM (1956–1972)
  8. Eugène Klein MSC (1972-1981)
  9. Michel-Marie-Bernard Calvet SM, since 1981

See also

Web links

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