Suffragan diocese Vijayawada, India
Diocese of Vijayawada
Viiayavadan(us)
Latin Church
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.
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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.
- St. Joseph ChurchMusunuruView parish
- St. Joseph ChurchPenugolanuView parish
- St. Joseph ChurchVellaturuView parish
- St. Joseph The Worker ChurchGudlavalleruView parish
- St. Mary’s Parish ChurchSahaya Nagar IbrahimpatnamView parish
- St. Peter Claver ChurchPedanaView parish
- St. Teresa of Avila ChurchGoodmanpeta GudivadaView parish
- St. Theresa of avila ChurchTheresanagarView parish
- St. Theresa of Child Jesus ChurchPamarruView parish
- St. Thomas Aquinas ChurchPaidurupaduView parish
- St. Thomas ChurchKoduruView parish
- St. Thomas ChurchPolukondaView parish
- St. Thomas the Apostle ChurchRamanakkapetaView parish
- St.Joseph ChurchNawabupetaView parish
- St.Joseph the Worker ChurchRanigarithotaView parish
- Sts. John & Paul ChurchKondapalliView parish
- The Holy Rosary ChurchChatraiView parish
- The Infant Jesus ChurchGannavaramView parish
- The Resurrection ChurchGollapudiView parish
- The Sacred Heart ChurchChallapalliView parish
- The Sacred Heart ChurchJaggayyapetaView parish
- The Sacred Heart ChurchTelaproluView parish
- Velangini Maatha Parish ChurchRaja RajeswaripetaView parish
- Velankanni Matha ChurchNandigamaView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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.