Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Katedral Santa Perawan Maria Ratu Rosario Suci, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, in the city of Semarang, Jawa Tengah.

The first Roman Catholic mission in this Archdiocese was established in 1640 when two Dominican priests, Manuel de St Maria, O.P.

and Pedro de St Joseph, O.P., acquired land from Sultan of Mataram to minister Portuguese Catholic merchants in Jepara.

The earliest mission dispersed as persecution of Catholics by Netherlands' colonial government.

At 1904, Fransiskus Georgius Josephus van Lith, S.J., established a school for teachers in Muntilan and the spread of new teachers made Roman Catholic Church developed across Central Java and even for the whole Java Island.