Diocese of Baroda
Baroden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Baroda, India
Latin rite diocese in Gujarat, India, erected on 29 September 1966 from the Archdiocese of Bombay. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, with the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Vadodara as its seat.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 September 1966
- Latin
- Baroden(sis)
- Patron
- * Nuestra Señora del Rosario * san José
- Annuario code
- 001000836
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 92,051
- Population
- 17,857,000
- Catholic share
- 0.5%
- Priests
- 201
- Catholics per priest
- 458
- Extent
- 40,365 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.3
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
- Sebastiao Mascarenhas, S.F.X.
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 Our Lady of the Rosary, Vadodara stands in Baroda, 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 Gandhinagar
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Gandhinagar.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of GandhinagarGandhinagar
- Diocese of AhmedabadAhmedabad
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Within India's ecclesiastical province of Gandhinagar, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baroda (Latin: Baroden(sis)) has its seat in the city of Baroda.
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].