Diocese of Pangkal-Pinang
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pangkal-Pinang is a diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Palembang on Bangka Belitung Islands in Indonesia, yet depends on the missionary Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Katedral Santo Yosep, dedicated to Saint Joseph, in the city of Pangkal-Pinang, on Bangka Island.
History
- 27 December 1923: Established as the Apostolic Prefecture of Bangka e Biliton, on territory split off from the Apostolic Prefecture of Sumatra
- 8 February 1951: Promoted and renamed after its see as the Apostolic Vicariate of Pangkal-Pinang
- 3 January 1961: Promoted as '''Diocese of Pangkal-Pinang'''
Statistics
As per 2018, it pastorally served 55,421 Catholics on 27,021 km2 in 17 parishes, 2 missions, with 77 priests, 111 lay religious, and 26 seminarians.Ordinaries
;Apostolic Prefects of Bangka e Biliton- Mgr Teodosio Herckenrath, Picpus Fathers, SS.CC. born Netherlands, the colonial homeland)
- Mgr Vito Bouma, SS.CC.
- Mgr Van Soest, SS.CC. as Apostolic Administrator vicar Apostolic Prefects of Bangka, Belitung and Riau
- Nicolas Pierre van der Westen, SS.CC., Titular Bishop of Bladia
- Nicolas Pierre van der Westen, SS.CC., died 1982
- Mgr Rolf Reichenbach, SS.CC. 1979-1987 as Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Pangkalpinang
- Mgr Hilarius Moa Nurak, Divine Word Missionaries
- Mgr Yohanes Harun Yuwono Pr. as Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Pangkalpinang
- Mgr Adrianus Sunarko, O.F.M., no previous prelature.