Archdiocese of Goa e Damão
Goan(us) et Damanen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Old Goa, India
The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese covering Goa, Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli on India's west coast; erected as the Diocese of Goa on 31 January 1533 and elevated to archdiocese on 4 February 1558, it is the oldest active Latin see of the East Indies. Its seat is the Se Cathedral of St Catherine of Alexandria in Old Goa, and its archbishop also bears the titles Patriarch of the East Indies and Primate of the East. Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrao has been archbishop since 2003.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1533
- Latin
- Goan(us) et Damanen(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph Vaz
- Annuario code
- 001001496
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 620,570
- Population
- 1,600,000
- Catholic share
- 38.8%
- Priests
- 701
- Catholics per priest
- 885
- Extent
- 4,194 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 148
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
- Archbishop
- Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrao
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
Se Cathedral of St Catherine of Alexandria, Old Goa stands in Old Goa, 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 Goa and Daman
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of SindhudurgSindhudurg
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The Goa state and the Damaon territory, in the Konkan region along the west coast of India, together form the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Goa and Daman (Latin: Archidioecesis Goanae et Damanensis, Goan Konkani: Gõy ani Damanv Mha-Dhormprant, Portuguese: Arquidiocese de Goa e Damão). One suffragan belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Goa and Damaon: the Sindhudurg Diocese, which comprises the Malvani areas of (central Konkan).
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].