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Metropolitan see Chattogram, Bangladesh

Archdiocese of Chattogram

Chittagongen(sis)

Latin Church

Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese in southeastern Bangladesh, made the seat of the country's second ecclesiastical province by Pope Francis on 2 February 2017, with Khulna and Barishal as suffragans; the see was officially renamed Chattogram in 2018. Its seat is Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Cathedral in Chattogram. Archbishop Lawrence Subrato Howlader, C.S.C. was appointed 19 February 2021 and installed 9 April 2021.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Cathedral, Chattogram, in Chattogram, Bangladesh.

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Established
2018
Catholics
39,664
Priests
29
Territory
44,195 km²

Parishes and churches

13 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Lawrence Subrato Howlader, C.S.C.

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The cathedral

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Cathedral, Chattogram stands in Chattogram, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Renamed Chattogram on December 28, 2018, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chittagong (Latin: Archidiœcesis Chittagongensis) is a Latin Church archdiocese in Bangladesh. As metropolitan see it heads the ecclesiastical province of Chittagong, whose suffragans are the Roman Catholic Diocese of Khulna and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Barisal, both within Bangladesh.