[Traveler59]

It may have been the first officially recognized mass, but it certainly isn't the first. I personally attended many underground Catholic Mass’s (es?) including Easter and Christmas high mass with an ordained Catholic priest. Usually about 100 - 150 attending. This was between 1988 and 2005.

[353FMG]

I know that there was a Catholic bishop in Abu Dhabi in 1993 when I was there. I am sure he celebrated Mass, daily. I’m pretty sure that there were Catholic priests in the ARAMCO facilities in the ‘70’s.