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Diocese of Nashik

Nashiken(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in Maharashtra, India, erected 15 May 1987 from the Diocese of Poona and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bombay. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. Anne in Nashik and its territory covers the Nashik, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar, and Ahmednagar districts, with about 86,000 Catholics (2004).

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
15 May 1987
Latin
Nashiken(sis)
Annuario code
001002356

The see in figures

Catholics
86,090
Population
20,000,000
Catholic share
0.4%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
110
Catholics per priest
783
Extent
57,592 km²
Catholics per km²
1.5

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
Barthol Barretto
Born
16 September 1961
Birthplace
Mumbai

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 St. Anne, Nashik stands in Nashik, 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 Bombay

A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bombay.

The sees of this province:

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

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].