Martinus Dogma Situmorang

Martinus Dogma Situmorang OFMCap (28 March 1946 – 19 November 2019) was an Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop.

Dogma Situmorang was born in Indonesia and was ordained to the priesthood in 1974. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Padang, Indonesia, from 1983 until his death in 2019.

Early life Dogma Situmorang was born in the village of Palipi on Samosir Island to an ethnic Batak family. He was the third child of the couple Joseph Iskandar Arminius Situmorang and Maria Dina Sinaga. His father was a Roman Catholic catechist who was one of the forerunners in the foundation of the Catholic church on the Samosir Island. On 26 December 1958, when he was 12, Dogma Situmorang's birth mother Maria died and his father remarried to Maria Else Sinaga. In total Dogma Situmorang grew up in a large family with 8 brothers and 6 sisters.

Religious life When he was in his early twenties Dogma Situmorang joined the Capuchins. On 5 January 1974 at the age of 27 he was ordained a priest.