Diocese of Allahabad
Allahabaden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Allahabad, India
Latin rite diocese based in Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India, erected as an apostolic vicariate in 1845 and promoted to diocese on 1 September 1886. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Agra, with St. Joseph's Cathedral in Prayagraj as its seat. Its patron is St. Joseph.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 September 1886
- Latin
- Allahabaden(sis)
- Patron
- St. Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001000652
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 13,525
- Population
- 32,644,000
- Catholic share
- 0.0%
- Priests
- 70
- Catholics per priest
- 193
- Extent
- 45,215 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
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
- Bishop
- Louis Mascarenhas
- Born
- 29 September 1959
- Birthplace
- Kelmbet
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
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Prayagraj stands in Allahabad, 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 Agra
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Agra.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AgraAgra
- Diocese of AjmerAjmer
- Diocese of BareillyBareilly
- Diocese of JaipurJaipur
- Diocese of JhansiJhansi
- Diocese of LucknowLucknow
- Diocese of MeerutMeerut
- Diocese of UdaipurUdaipur
- Diocese of VaranasiVaranasi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With its see in the city of Prayagraj, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allahabad (Latin: Allahabaden(sis)) belongs to India's ecclesiastical province of Agra. Thirteen districts of Uttar Pradesh fall within the diocese: Ambedkarnagar, Amethi, Ayodhya, Fatehpur, Kanpur City, Kanpur Dehat, Kaushambi, Mirzapur, Pratapgarh, Prayagraj, Rae Bareli, Sonbhadra, and Sultanpur.
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
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].