The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jakarta ( la, Giakartana) is a Metropolitan Latin

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, in

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. Its

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episcopal see is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, in the national capital

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History

* Established on 8 May 1807 as the

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of Batavia, on territory split off from the Apostolic Prefecture of Islands of the Indian Ocean * 3 April 1841: Promoted as the Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia, hence entitled to a

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* It lost vast territories frequently to various split-off missions: on 1855 to establish the

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, on 22 December 1902 to establish

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, on 11 February 1905 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Dutch Borneo, 30 June 1911 to establish

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, 16 June 1913 to establish

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, 19 November 1919 to establish

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(now Sulawesi), 27 April 1927 to establish

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, 15 February 1928 to establish

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, 20 April 1932 to establish

Apostolic Prefecture of Bandung The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung ( la, Bandungen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Bandung in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Jakarta on Java, in Indonesia. Its cathedral episcopal see is Katedral Santo Petrus (S ...

, 25 April 1932 to establish

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, 25 June 1940 to establish

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and 9 December 1948 to establish

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* On 7 February 1950 it was renamed after its see as the Apostolic Vicariate of Djakarta * 3 January 1961: Promoted as the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Djakarta, finally ceasing to be exempt (directly dependent on the Holy See) * It enjoyed a papal visit by

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in February 1970. * 22 August 1973: renamed as the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Jakarta * It enjoyed a papal visit by

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in October 1989.

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of Batavia

* Jacobus Nelissen (1808-1817) * Lambertus Prinsen (1817-1830)

Apostolic Vicars of Batavia

* Johannes Scholten (1831-1842) * Jacobus Grooff (1842-1852) * Petrus Maria Vrancken (1852-1874) * Adam Carel Claessens (1874-1893) * Walterus Staal, S.J. (1893-1897) * Edmondo Luypen, S.J. (1898-1923) * Antonio Pietro Francesco van Velsen, S.J. (1924-1933) * Pieter Jan Willekens, S.J. (1934-1950)

Apostolic Vicars of Djakarta

* Pieter Jan Willekens, S.J. (1950-1952) * Adrianus Djajasepoetra, S.J. (1953-1961)

Archbishops of Djakarta

* Adrianus Djajasepoetra (1961-1970) * Leo Soekoto, S.J. (1970-1973)

Archbishops of Jakarta

* Leo Soekoto (1973-1995) * Julius Cardinal Darmaatmadja (1996-2010) * Ignatius Cardinal Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (2010-present)

Coadjutor Bishops

* Petrus Maria Vrancken (1847-1852) * Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (2009-2010)

Ecclesiastical province

Its

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comprises the Metropolitan's own archdiocese and these

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daughter dioceses, both also on

island: * Roman Catholic Diocese of Bandung * Roman Catholic Diocese of Bogor

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org with incumbent biography links

Official website
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