Suffragan diocese Allahabad, India
Diocese of Allahabad
Allahabaden(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1886
- Catholics
- 13,525
- Priests
- 70
- Territory
- 45,215 km²
Parishes and churches
38 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St. Joseph’s CathedralAllahabad · CathedralView parish
- Assumption ChurchDostpurView parish
- Catholic MissionAmbedkarnagarView parish
- Catholic MissionAllahabadView parish
- Christ the King ChurchJagadishpurView parish
- Hartmann MissionAllahabadView parish
- Holy Rosary ChurchPratapgarhView parish
- Ishmata AshramAjhuwaView parish
- KhristBhawanSultanpurView parish
- KhristJyoti AshramWyndamganjView parish
- Kripaon Ki Mata MissionDudhiView parish
- Lourdes’ ChurchRenukootView parish
- Queen of the Apostles’ ChurchAllahabadView parish
- Sacred Heart ChurchObraView parish
- SadaSahai Mata MissionAllahabadView parish
- St. Antony’s ChurchKanpurView parish
- St. Francis of Assisi ChurchAnparaView parish
- St. Francis Xavier ChurchKanpurView parish
- St. John Bosco ChurchAllahabadView parish
- St. John’s ChurchFatehpurView parish
- St. Joseph’s ChurchJaffarganjView parish
- St. Joseph’s ChurchKanpurView parish
- St. Joseph’s ChurchRihandnagarView parish
- St. Joseph’s ChurchShaktinagarView parish
- St. Joseph’s MissionAllahabadView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchAllahabadView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchFaizabadView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchMirzapurView parish
- St. Patrick’s ChurchAllahabadView parish
- St. Patrick’s ChurchKanpurView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Louis Mascarenhas
- Born
- 29 September 1959
- Birthplace
- Kelmbet
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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.
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.