Diocese of Berhampur
Berhampuren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Berhampur, India
Latin rite diocese in Odisha, India, erected on 24 January 1974 from the Diocese of Cuttack. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, with the Cathedral of the Queen of the Missions in Brahmapur as its seat.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 24 January 1974
- Latin
- Berhampuren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000890
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 125,241
- Population
- 9,161,000
- Catholic share
- 1.4%
- Priests
- 104
- Catholics per priest
- 1,204
- Extent
- 51,289 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.4
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
- Sarat Chandra Nayak
- Born
- 1 July 1957
- Birthplace
- Kerubadi
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 the Queen of the Missions, Brahmapur stands in Berhampur, 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 Cuttack-Bhubaneswar
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Cuttack-BhubaneswarCuttack-Bhubaneswar
- Diocese of BalasoreBalasore
- Diocese of RayagadaRayagada
- Diocese of RourkelaRourkela
- Diocese of SambalpurSambalpur
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Berhampur, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Berhampuren(sis)) belongs to India's ecclesiastical province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, Berhampur-760007, Ganjam Dt., Odisha, India
- Telephone
- [943]768.1965
- [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].