Suffragan diocese Port Blair, India
Diocese of Port Blair
Portus Blairen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese covering the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, erected 22 June 1984 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ranchi. Its seat is Stella Maris Cathedral in Port Blair, serving about 39,900 Catholics (2017), roughly 8.5% of the islands' population.
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- Established
- 1984
- Catholics
- 39,935
- Priests
- 48
- Territory
- 8,249 km²
Parishes and churches
14 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Stella Maris CathedralPrem Nagar · CathedralView parish
- Our Lady of Fathima Catholic ChurchRamnagarView parish
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic ChurchKalapaharView parish
- Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic ChurchOralkatchaView parish
- St. Antony Catholic ChurchHut BayView parish
- St. Francis Assisi Catholic ChurchAdajigView parish
- St. Francis Xavier Catholic ChurchWimberlygunjView parish
- St. Francis Xavier Catholic ChurchRangatView parish
- St. Ignatius Catholic ChurchDiglipurView parish
- St. Joseph Catholic ChurchCampbell BayView parish
- St. Joseph Catholic ChurchFerrargunjView parish
- St. Joseph Catholic ChurchMilderaView parish
- St. Thomas Catholic ChurchMayabunderView parish
- St.Joseph Catholic ChurchProthrapurView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Visuvasam Selvaraj
- Born
- 4 January 1966
- Birthplace
- Raja Annamalaipuram
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The cathedral
Stella Maris Cathedral, Port Blair stands in Port Blair, 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.
History
Port Blair gives its name to this diocese (Latin: Portus Blairen(sis)), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Ranchi in India and has its seat in the city of Port Blair.