- Source: Roman Catholic Diocese of Broome
The Diocese of Broome is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church in Australia. The diocese covers the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Perth. Its cathedral episcopal see is Our Lady Queen of Peace Cathedral, in Broome, Western Australia.
History
On 10 May 1887, it was established initially as an Apostolic Vicariate of Kimberley in Western Australia, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Perth. On 4 May 1910, it lost territory to establish the Mission sui juris of Drysdale River, which was later renamed Kalumburu. On 13 November 1959, it was renamed as Apostolic Vicariate of Kimberleys. It was elevated as a diocese on 7 June 1966. In 1980, it regained the territory of the suppressed Mission sui juris of Kalumburu.
Episcopal ordinaries
The following individuals were ordinaries of Broome.
= Vicars Apostolic of Kimberley in Western Australia
== Bishops of Broome
=Parishes
As of 2011, the diocese had nineteen parishes:
Balgo–Kutjungka (St Theresa)
Broome (Our Lady Queen of Peace)
Dampier Peninsula with churches in Beagle Bay (Sacred Heart) and Lombadina (Christ the King)
Derby (Our Lady of the Holy Rosary) and Fitzroy Crossing (St Francis)
Halls Creek (St Mary)
Kalumburu (Our Lady of the Assumption)
Kununurra (St Vincent Pallotti)
La Grange-Bidyadanda (St John the Baptist)
Wyndham (Queen of Apostles)
References
External links
Catholic Diocese of Broome
GigaCatholic
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Broome
- Broome
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse
- List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
- John Jobst
- Bishop of North West Australia
- Michael Morrissey (bishop)
- List of Catholic dioceses in Australia
- Peter Ingham (bishop)
- Our Lady Queen of Peace Cathedral, Broome
