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Suffragan diocese Sambalpur, India

Diocese of Sambalpur

Sambalpuren(sis)

Latin-rite diocese in western Odisha, India, erected 14 June 1951 from territory of the Archdiocese of Calcutta and the Dioceses of Nagpur and Ranchi. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, with its seat at the Cathedral of St Joseph the Worker in Sambalpur.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Cathedral of St Joseph the Worker, Sambalpur, in Sambalpur, India.

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Established
1951
Catholics
40,256
Priests
149
Territory
37,299 km²

Parishes and churches

18 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Bishop
Niranjan Sual Singh

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The cathedral

Cathedral of St Joseph the Worker, Sambalpur stands in Sambalpur, 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

Seated in the city of Sambalpur, this diocese (Latin: Sambalpuren(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in India.