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Suffragan diocese Aurangabad, India

Diocese of Aurangabad

Aurangabaden(sis)

Latin rite diocese in Maharashtra, India, erected on 17 December 1977 from the Diocese of Amravati and the Archdiocese of Hyderabad. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nagpur, with the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales in Aurangabad as its seat.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales, Aurangabad, in Aurangabad, India.

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Established
1977
Catholics
15,623
Priests
74
Territory
64,525 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
Bernard Lancy Pinto

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales, Aurangabad stands in Aurangabad, 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 Aurangabad, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Aurangabaden(sis)) belongs to India's ecclesiastical province of Nagpur.