Diocese of Dibrugarh
Dibrugarhen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Dibrugarh, India
The Diocese of Dibrugarh is a Latin rite diocese in upper Assam, India, erected in 1951 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guwahati. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Dibrugarh.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 12 July 1951
- Latin
- Dibrugarhen(sis)
- Patron
- Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001001299
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 101,000
- Population
- 6,125,000
- Catholic share
- 1.6%
- Priests
- 152
- Catholics per priest
- 664
- Extent
- 32,545 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Albert Hemrom
- Born
- 27 February 1970
- Birthplace
- Konapathar
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 Sacred Heart, Dibrugarh stands in Dibrugarh, 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 Guwahati
A suffragan of Guwahati.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of GuwahatiGuwahati
- Diocese of BongaigaonBongaigaon
- Diocese of DiphuDiphu
- Diocese of ItanagarItanagar
- Diocese of MiaoMiao
- Diocese of TezpurTezpur
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Dibrugarh in India, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dibrugarh (Latin: Dibrugarhen(sis)) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Guwahati.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, Dr. Dibrugarh, P.O. Box 50, Dibrugarh-786001, Assam, India
- Telephone
- 943.5594.700
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].