Archdiocese of Karachi
Karachien(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Karachi, Pakistan
The Archdiocese of Karachi is the Latin rite metropolitan see for the city of Karachi, Pakistan, with the Diocese of Hyderabad as its suffragan. Erected on 20 May 1948 as a diocese under Bombay, it was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 15 July 1950. Its seat is St. Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 15 July 1950
- Latin
- Karachien(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Patrick
- Annuario code
- 001001810
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 166,000
- Population
- 18,371,000
- Catholic share
- 0.9%
- Priests
- 64
- Catholics per priest
- 2,594
- Extent
- 180,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
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
- Benny Mario Travas
- Born
- 21 November 1966
- Birthplace
- Karachi
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. Patrick's Cathedral, Karachi stands in Karachi, 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 Karachi
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Hyderabad in PakistanHyderabad
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected on 20 May 1948, the Archdiocese of Karachi is a Latin Church territory of the Catholic Church in Pakistan. It began as a suffragan diocese within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bombay.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Saddar, Karachi 74400, Pakistan
- Telephone
- [021]3278.15.33
- [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].