Diocese of Guntur
Gunturen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Guntur, India
The Diocese of Guntur is a Latin rite diocese in Andhra Pradesh, India, erected on 13 February 1940 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam. Its seat is the Bala Yesu (Infant Jesus) Cathedral in Phirangipuram.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 13 February 1940
- Latin
- Gunturen(sis)
- Patron
- Santa Teresa do Menino Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001001556
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 539,000
- Population
- 2,091,075
- Catholic share
- 25.8%
- Priests
- 196
- Catholics per priest
- 2,750
- Extent
- 12,803 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 42
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
- Bhagaiah Chinnabathini
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
Bala Yesu (Infant Jesus) Cathedral, Phirangipuram stands in Guntur, 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 Visakhapatnam
A suffragan of Visakhapatnam.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of VisakhapatnamVisakhapatnam
- Diocese of EluruEluru
- Diocese of NelloreNellore
- Diocese of SrikakulamSrikakulam
- Diocese of VijayawadaVijayawada
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Carved out of the Diocese of Nellore in 1940, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guntur lies in Andhra Pradesh, India. Msgr Thomas Pothacamury served as its first bishop, and the Most Rev. Bhagaiah Chinnabathini leads the diocese at present. Its cathedral stands in Phirangipuram.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, Chandramouli Nagar, Guntur-522007, A.P., India
- Telephone
- [0863]2350.255
- [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].