Suffragan diocese Aizawl, India
Diocese of Aizawl
Aizavlen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese covering Mizoram in northeast India, renamed Diocese of Aizawl on 11 January 1996 (it had existed as the Diocese of Silchar since 1969). It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Shillong, with Christ the King Cathedral in Aizawl as its seat. Its patron is St. Joseph.
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- Established
- 1996
- Catholics
- 41,067
- Priests
- 80
- Territory
- 28,002 km²
Parishes and churches
32 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Stephen Rotluanga, C.S.C.
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The cathedral
Christ the King Cathedral, Aizawl stands in Aizawl, 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.
History
Seated in the city of Aizawl, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Aizavlen(sis)) belongs to India's ecclesiastical province of Shillong.