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Suffragan diocese Amravati, India

Diocese of Amravati

Amravaten(sis)

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, Amravati, in Amravati, India.

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Established
1955
Catholics
5,054
Priests
45
Territory
46,447 km²

Parishes and churches

20 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Malcolm Sequeira

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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.

History

Seated in the city of Amravati, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Amravaten(sis)) forms part of India's ecclesiastical province of Nagpur.