Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur

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Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur Archidioecesis Kuala Lumpurensis Keuskupan Agung Kuala Lumpur
St. John's Cathedral
Location
Country	Malaysia
Ecclesiastical province	Kuala Lumpur
Coordinates	3°09′04″N 101°42′03″E / 3.15109530°N 101.70093080°E / 3.15109530; 101.70093080
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; 69 years ago (1955-02-25)
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
Website
www.archkl.org

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.