Diocese of Khammam
Khammamen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Khammam, India
Latin-rite diocese in Telangana, India, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hyderabad. Established 11 February 1988, separated from the Diocese of Warangal. Its seat is the Divine Mercy Cathedral in Khammam, with St Joseph's Co-Cathedral also in Khammam.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 18 January 1988
- Latin
- Khammamen(sis)
- Patron
- São José
- Annuario code
- 001001840
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 117,553
- Population
- 2,611,010
- Catholic share
- 4.5%
- Priests
- 103
- Catholics per priest
- 1,141
- Extent
- 16,029 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.3
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
- Prakash Sagili
- Born
- 16 April 1956
- Birthplace
- Mahanandhipalli
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
Divine Mercy Cathedral, Khammam stands in Khammam, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is St Joseph's Co-Cathedral, Khammam.
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 CuddapahCuddapah
- Diocese of KurnoolKurnool
- Diocese of NalgondaNalgonda
- Diocese of WarangalWarangal
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, Naidupet, Khammam-507003, A.P., India
- Telephone
- [08742]222.459; 222.460; fax 223.083
- [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].