Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnamen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Visakhapatnam, India
Latin-rite metropolitan archdiocese in Andhra Pradesh, India, with origins in the 1845 Apostolic Pro-Vicariate of Vizagapatam, erected as the Diocese of Vizagapatam in 1886 and elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 16 October 2001. Seated at St Peter's Cathedral in Visakhapatnam, its suffragans are Eluru, Guntur, Nellore, Srikakulam and Vijayawada.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 October 2001
- Latin
- Visakhapatnamen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000116
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 247,231
- Population
- 12,640,684
- Catholic share
- 2.0%
- Priests
- 156
- Catholics per priest
- 1,585
- Extent
- 25,950 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.5
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Udumala Bala Showreddy
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St Peter's Cathedral, Visakhapatnam stands in Visakhapatnam, 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.
The province of Visakhapatnam
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of EluruEluru
- Diocese of GunturGuntur
- Diocese of NelloreNellore
- Diocese of SrikakulamSrikakulam
- Diocese of VijayawadaVijayawada
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Visakhapatnam in India is the seat of this metropolitan archdiocese, known in Latin as Archdioecesis Metropolitae Visakhapatnamensis.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archbishop’s House, D. No. 13-1-1/C, Maharanipeta, Visakhapatnam-530002, A.P., India
- Telephone
- [0891]2706.428; 2704.404
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].