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Diocese of Jhansi

Ihansien(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in Uttar Pradesh, India, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Agra. Established as an Apostolic Prefecture on 12 January 1940 from the Diocese of Allahabad and promoted to a diocese on 5 July 1954. Its seat is the Cathedral of St Anthony in Jhansi.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
5 July 1954
Latin
Ihansien(sis)
Patron
St Jude Thaddeus
Annuario code
001001737

The see in figures

Catholics
3,782
Population
8,315,000
Catholic share
0.0%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
79
Catholics per priest
48
Extent
29,418 km²
Catholics per km²
0.1

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
Wilfred Gregory Moras
Born
13 February 1969
Birthplace
Neerude

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 Anthony's Cathedral, Jhansi stands in Jhansi, 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 Agra

A suffragan of Agra.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Seated in the city of Jhansi in India, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jhansi (Latin: Ihansien[sis])) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Agra.

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.

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Sources

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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].