Diocese of Amravati
Amravaten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Amravati, India
Latin rite diocese in Maharashtra, India, erected on 8 May 1955 from the Archdiocese of Nagpur. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nagpur, with the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier in Amravati as its seat. Its patrons are Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Francis Xavier.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 8 May 1955
- Latin
- Amravaten(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Sorrows and St. Francis Xavier
- Annuario code
- 001000680
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 5,054
- Population
- 10,930,000
- Catholic share
- 0.0%
- Priests
- 45
- Catholics per priest
- 112
- Extent
- 46,447 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
- Malcolm Sequeira
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
Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, Amravati stands in Amravati, 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 Nagpur
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nagpur.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of NagpurNagpur
- Diocese of AurangabadAurangabad
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Amravati, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Amravaten(sis)) forms part of India's ecclesiastical province of Nagpur.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, Amravati Camp P.O., Amravati-444602, Maharashtra State, India
- Telephone
- [0721]2663.171
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
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 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
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].