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Suffragan diocese Vijayawada, India

Diocese of Vijayawada

Viiayavadan(us)

Latin-rite diocese in Andhra Pradesh, India, begun 10 January 1933 as a mission sui iuris from the Diocese of Hyderabad, erected as the Diocese of Bezwada on 13 April 1937 and renamed Vijayawada on 21 October 1950. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam, seated at St Paul's Cathedral in Vijayawada.

On the map

Esri
Vijayawada, India, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1933
Catholics
359,530
Priests
276
Territory
8,734 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Thelagathoti Joseph Raja Rao

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The cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral, Vijayawada stands in Vijayawada, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Seated in the city of Vijayawada within the ecclesiastical province of Visakhapatnam in India, this diocese (Latin: Viiayavadan(us)) administratively covers the geographical Krishna district of the state of Andhra Pradesh. Among all the suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada holds the largest Catholic population, 359,000.