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Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur Archidioecesis Kuala Lumpurensis Keuskupan Agung Kuala Lumpur | |
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Location | |
Country | Malaysia |
Ecclesiastical province | Kuala Lumpur |
Coordinates | 3°09′04″N 101°42′03″E / 3.15109530°N 101.70093080°E |
Statistics | |
Area | 63,763 km2 (24,619 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2019) 12,390,830 264,840[1] (2.1%) |
Parishes | 35[1] |
Information | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Established | February 25, 1955 |
Cathedral | St. John's Cathedral |
Patron saint | John the Evangelist |
Secular priests | 61[2] |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Julian Leow Beng Kim |
Suffragans | Diocese of Penang Diocese of Malacca-Johor |
Vicar General | Msgr, Stanislaus Soosaimariam Msgr Patrick Boudville, Chancellor: Rev Fr. Dr. Clarence Devadass |
Bishops emeritus | Murphy Pakiam |
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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur (Latin: Archidioecesis Kuala Lumpurensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia. It was erected as the Diocese of Kuala Lumpur by Pope Pius XII on 25 February 1955, and was elevated to the rank of a Metropolitan Archdiocese on 18 December 1972, with the suffragan sees of Malacca-Johor and Penang. It also administers the capital city of Malaysia, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur as well as the federal administrative centre of Putrajaya and the urbanised states of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan in the central region as well as Pahang and Terengganu on the East Coast. The archdiocese's Mother Church and thus, seat of its Archbishop, is St. John's Cathedral. It was one of the three Roman Catholic archdioceses in Malaysia, with the ecclesiastical archdioceses of Kota Kinabalu and Kuching, both at the Borneo Islands.