Suffragan diocese Raiganj, India
Diocese of Raiganj
Raigangen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese in northern West Bengal, India, erected 8 June 1978 from the Diocese of Dumka by detaching the West Dinajpur and Malda districts. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Calcutta, its seat is St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral at Chotparua (inaugurated 2010), serving about 95,700 Catholics (2010).
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- Established
- 1978
- Catholics
- 95,663
- Priests
- 118
- Territory
- 8,920 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Bishop
- Fulgence Aloysius Tigga
- Born
- 3 March 1965
- Birthplace
- Katkahi
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The cathedral
St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral, Chotparua stands in Raiganj, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
On June 8, 1978, Pope Paul VI issued the Apostolic Bull Ut Petrus et Pastor, establishing this diocese at Raiganj in the Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India. Its territory, the districts of West Dinajpur and Malda, was detached from the Diocese of Dumka. West Dinajpur was later divided into the districts of North and South Dinajpur.