Diocese of Mangalore
Mangaloren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Mangalore, India
Latin-rite diocese in coastal Karnataka, India, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bangalore. Established as an Apostolic Vicariate in 1853 and promoted to a diocese on 1 September 1886. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Mangalore; the Diocese of Udupi was carved from its territory in 2012.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 September 1886
- Latin
- Mangaloren(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001002141
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 267,343
- Population
- 2,978,560
- Catholic share
- 9.0%
- Priests
- 387
- Catholics per priest
- 691
- Extent
- 5,924 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 45
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
- Peter Paul Saldanha
- Born
- 27 April 1964
- Birthplace
- Kinnigoli
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 Our Lady of the Rosary, Mangalore stands in Mangalore, 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 Bangalore
A suffragan of Bangalore.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BangaloreBangalore
- Diocese of BelgaumBelgaum
- Diocese of BellaryBellary
- Diocese of ChikmagalurChikmagalur
- Diocese of GulbargaGulbarga
- Diocese of KarwarKarwar
- Diocese of MysoreMysore
- Diocese of ShimogaShimoga
- Diocese of UdupiUdupi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Bishop’s House, Kodialbail P.O., Mangalore-575003, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, India
- Telephone
- [0824]2440.525
- [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].