Diocese of Bhagalpur
Bhagalpuren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bhagalpur, India
Latin rite diocese in Bihar, India, first created as an apostolic prefecture detached from Patna on 3 August 1956 and erected as a diocese on 11 January 1965. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Patna, with the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bhagalpur as its seat.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 11 January 1965
- Latin
- Bhagalpuren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000897
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 78,359
- Population
- 9,446,000
- Catholic share
- 0.8%
- Priests
- 140
- Catholics per priest
- 560
- Extent
- 17,766 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.4
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
- Kurian Valiakandathil
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 Immaculate Conception, Bhagalpur stands in Bhagalpur, 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 Patna
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Patna.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of PatnaPatna
- Diocese of BettiahBettiah
- Diocese of BuxarBuxar
- Diocese of MuzaffarpurMuzaffarpur
- Diocese of PurneaPurnea
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Bhagalpur, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Bhagalpuren(sis)) forms part of India's ecclesiastical province of Patna.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Chancery Office, Nawab Colony, P.B. 61, 812001 Bhagalpur, Bihar, India
- Telephone
- 943.1214.785; 735.6924.352
- [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].