Archdiocese of Thare and Nonseng

	Archdiocese of Thare and Nonseng
Basic data
Country	Thailand
Diocesan bishop	Anthony Weradet Chaiseri
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Louis Chamniern Santisukniram
founding	May 4, 1899
surface	25,447 km²
Parishes	80 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents	3,275,648 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics	54,991 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of	1.7%
Diocesan priest	69 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest	4 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest	753
Friars	4 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters	121 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Thai
cathedral	Archangel Michael Cathedral, Tha Rae
Co-cathedral	St. Anne's Church, Nong Saeng
Website	http://www.tharaediocese.org/
Suffragan dioceses	Diocese of Nakhon Ratchasima ; Diocese of Ubon Ratchathani ; Diocese of Udon Thani

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Thare and Nonseng ( lat. : Archidioecesis Tharensis et Nonsengensis , Thai : เขต มิส ซัง ท่า แร่ - หนอง แสง ) is in Thailand situated Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Northeast -Thailand. It includes the provinces of Kalasin , Mukdahan , Nakhon Phanom and Sakon Nakhon . The episcopal church, the Archangel Michael Cathedral ( Thai อาสน วิหาร อัคร เทวดา มี คา แอ ล ), is located in the small town of Tha Rae near Sakon Nakhon, but the administration of the archdiocese is located in the city of Sakon Nakhon itself. The second part of the The name refers to Nong Saeng, a district of Nakhon Phanom, the local St. Anna Church ( โบสถ์ นักบุญ อัน นา ) has a status as a co- cathedral .

The proportion of Catholics in the total population in the area of the diocese is 1.5%, well above the national average (overall, less than 0.5% of Thais are Catholic).

history

Pope Leo XIII. founded the Apostolic Vicariate Laos in 1899 as a spin-off from the Apostolic Vicariate East Siam . On October 21, 1950, after losing all territories belonging to the state of Laos, it took the name of the Vicariate Apostolic Thare.

On March 25, 1960, it was named Vicariate Apostolic Thare and Nonseng. With the bull Qui in fastigio it was raised to the rank of metropolitan bishopric on December 18, 1965 .

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

June 14, 1938 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Vientiane
October 21, 1950 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Savannakhet
May 7, 1951 to the Vicariate Apostolic Ubon
May 7, 1951 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Udonthani

Shrine of the Seven Martyrs of Thailand in Song Khon (Mukdahan Province)

Archangel Michael Cathedral in Tha Rae

In December 1940, in the village of Song Khon ( Wan Yai district , Mukdahan province ), during the Franco-Thai War, Thai police shot and killed seven Thai Catholics suspected of spying for France. However, it may also have played a role that the radical nationalist military government of Plaek Phibunsongkhram generally rejected everything “foreign” and viewed Christianity as a “foreign religion”. Among those killed were a catechist , two religious sisters of the Love of the Holy Cross and four lay women (including three girls aged 14 to 16). They were considered martyrs of the faith in 1989 by Pope John Paul II. Beatified . The pilgrimage church of Our Lady in Song Khon, built in 1995 and dedicated to the seven martyrs, is one of the largest Christian churches in Thailand.

Ordinaries

Vicars Apostolic of Laos

Marie-Joseph Cuaz M.EP (May 12, 1899 to April 26, 1912)
Constant-Jean-Baptiste Prodhomme MEP (June 2, 1913 to August 20, 1920)
Ange-Marie-Joseph Gouin MEP (April 27, 1922 to July 1, 1943)
Henri-Albert Thomine MEP (July 13, 1944 to March 21, 1945)
Claude-Philippe Bayet MEP (April 10, 1947 to December 21, 1950)

Vicars Apostolic of Thare

Claude-Philippe Bayet MEP (December 21, 1950 to March 7, 1953, then Vicar Apostolic of Ubon )
Michael Mongkhol On Prakhongchit (May 7, 1953 to January 23, 1958)
Michel Kien Samophithak (February 12, 1959 to March 25, 1960)

Vicar Apostolic of Thare and Nonseng

Michel Kien Samophithak (March 25, 1960 to December 18, 1965)

Archbishops of Thare and Nonseng

Michel Kien Samophithak (December 18, 1965 to March 6, 1980)
Lawrence Khai Saen-Phon-On (March 6, 1980 to May 14, 2004)
Louis Chamniern Santisukniram (July 1, 2005 to May 13, 2020)
Anthony Weradet Chaiseri (since May 13, 2020)

statistics

year	population			priest				Permanent deacons	Religious		Parishes
year	Catholics	Residents	%	Total number	Diocesan priest	Religious priest	Catholics per priest	Permanent deacons	male	Female	Parishes
1950	24,500	?	?	27	27		0.907			103
1970	25,153	1,500,000	1.7	31	24	7th	0.811		7th	072
1980	34,918	2,179,808	1.6	23	20th	3	1,518		3	074	15th
1990	41,917	2,697,000	1.6	29	29		1,445			092	28
1999	48.229	3,113,865	1.5	49	49		0.984			095	32
2000	48,887	3,117,179	1.6	47	47		1,040			092	30th
2001	49,489	3,118,865	1.6	51	51		0.970			099	30th
2002	48,930	3,262,786	1.5	50	50		0.978			102	49
2003	49,528	3,343,077	1.5	52	52		0.952			103	49
2004	50.008	3,157,780	1.6	50	49	1	1,000		1	107	74
2010	44,078	3,171,478	1.4	67	63	3	0.667		3	94	75

Individual evidence

↑ Matthew, Margaret, and Stephen Bunson: John Paul II's Book of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, Huntington (IN) 1999, pp. 305-306, entry Martyrs of Thailand .
↑ Kathleen Jones (Ed.): Butler's Lives of the Saints. December. Burns & Oats, Tunbridge Wells (Kent) 2000, pp. 142-144, entry The Martyrs of Thailand.
↑ Lonely Planet Thailand. 2015, p. 528.

Web links

Commons : Archdiocese of Thare and Nonseng - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Matthew, Margaret, and Stephen Bunson: John Paul II's Book of Saints. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, Huntington (IN) 1999, pp. 305-306, entry Martyrs of Thailand .

[2] Kathleen Jones (Ed.): Butler's Lives of the Saints. December. Burns & Oats, Tunbridge Wells (Kent) 2000, pp. 142-144, entry The Martyrs of Thailand.

[3] Lonely Planet Thailand. 2015, p. 528.