Suffragan diocese Rourkela, India
Diocese of Rourkela
Rurkelaën(sis)
Latin Church
Latin-rite diocese in Odisha, India, erected 4 July 1979 from the Diocese of Sambalpur and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. Its seat is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rourkela; with about 270,800 Catholics (2020, 12.4% of the population) across 44 parishes it is one of the larger Catholic communities in eastern India.
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- Established
- 1979
- Catholics
- 270,817
- Priests
- 187
- Territory
- 9,675 km²
Parishes and churches
36 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Catholic Church, SiabahalSiabahalView parish
- Catholic Church, SikajorSikajorView parish
- Catholic Church, SingarmundaSingarmundaView parish
- Catholic Church, SundargarhSundargarhView parish
- Catholic Church, TelendihTelendihView parish
- Catholic Church, ThakurpaliThakurpaliView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Kishore Kumar Kujur
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The cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rourkela stands in Rourkela, 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
The city of Rourkela is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Rurkelaën(sis)), which lies within the ecclesiastical province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in India.