Archdiocese of Chattogram
Chittagongen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Chattogram, Bangladesh
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.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 28 December 2018
- Latin
- Chittagongen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Rosary
- Annuario code
- 001001145
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 39,664
- Population
- 34,890,000
- Catholic share
- 0.1%
- Extent
- 44,195 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Lawrence Subrato Howlader, C.S.C.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Chattogram
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of BarishalBarishal
- Diocese of KhulnaKhulna
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia · GCatholic
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].