Diocese of Krishnagar
Krishnagaren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Krishnagar, India
Latin-rite diocese in West Bengal, India, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Calcutta. Erected 1 September 1886 as the Diocese of Central Bengal and renamed Diocese of Krishnagar on 7 June 1887; its origins trace to an 1855 mission sui iuris. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Holy Redeemer in Krishnanagar, Nadia.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 September 1886
- Latin
- Krishnagaren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001001907
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 61,158
- Population
- 10,561,058
- Catholic share
- 0.6%
- Priests
- 74
- Catholics per priest
- 826
- Extent
- 8,640 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.1
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
- Nirmol Vincent Gomes
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 Holy Redeemer, Krishnanagar stands in Krishnagar, 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 Calcutta
A suffragan of Calcutta.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of CalcuttaCalcutta
- Diocese of AsansolAsansol
- Diocese of BagdograBagdogra
- Diocese of BaruipurBaruipur
- Diocese of DarjeelingDarjeeling
- Diocese of JalpaiguriJalpaiguri
- Diocese of RaiganjRaiganj
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, Don Bosco Road, P.O. Krishnanagar-741101, Nadia Dt., West Bengal, India
- Telephone
- [03472]252.554; Tel. e fax 252.664
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].