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

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Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...

, 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

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital city, capital and list of Indonesian cities by population, largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coa ...

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 Apostolic Prefecture of Labuan and Borneo, on 22 December 1902 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Dutch New Guinea, on 11 February 1905 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Dutch Borneo, 30 June 1911 to establish

Apostolic Prefecture of Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 475,807.63 km2 (182,812 mi.2), including adjacent isla ...

, 16 June 1913 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Lesser Sunda Islands, 19 November 1919 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Celebes (now Sulawesi), 27 April 1927 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Malang, 15 February 1928 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Surabaia, 20 April 1932 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Bandung, 25 April 1932 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Purwokerto, 25 June 1940 to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Semarang and 9 December 1948 to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Sukabumi * 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 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 ...

* Roman Catholic Diocese of Bogor

Sources and external links

GCatholic.org with incumbent biography links

Official website
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