Diocese of Cuddapah
Cuddapahen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Cuddapah, India
The Diocese of Cuddapah is a Latin rite diocese in Andhra Pradesh, India, erected in 1976 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hyderabad. Its seat is St Mary's Cathedral in Mariapuram. Bishop Paul Prakash Saginala was appointed on 8 March 2025 and ordained on 9 April 2025, ending a long vacancy.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 October 1976
- Latin
- Cuddapahen(sis)
- Patron
- São José
- Annuario code
- 001001245
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 134,145
- Population
- 6,772,265
- Catholic share
- 2.0%
- Priests
- 147
- Catholics per priest
- 913
- Extent
- 15,359 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 8.7
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
- Paul Prakash Saginala
- Born
- 12 June 1961
- Birthplace
- Cuddapah
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
St Mary's Cathedral, Mariapuram stands in Cuddapah, 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 Hyderabad
A suffragan of Hyderabad.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HyderabadHyderabad
- Diocese of KhammamKhammam
- Diocese of KurnoolKurnool
- Diocese of NalgondaNalgonda
- Diocese of WarangalWarangal
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in the city of Kadapa in India, the Roman Catholic Diocese of kadapa (Latin: kadapahen(sis)) sits within the ecclesiastical province of Hyderabad. At present some 66 parishes serve the 81,580 Catholics of the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, D.NO. W-19-039, Mariapuram, Kadapa-516003, A.P., India
- Telephone
- 967.6052.989
- [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].