Metropolitan see Lahore, Pakistan
Archdiocese of Lahore
Lahoren(sis)
Latin Church
The Archdiocese of Lahore is the Latin rite metropolitan see of Punjab, Pakistan, with the Dioceses of Faisalabad, Islamabad-Rawalpindi and Multan as suffragans. Erected in 1880 as the Vicariate Apostolic of the Punjab, it became the Diocese of Lahore in 1886 and was elevated to a metropolitan archdiocese on 23 April 1994. Its seat is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore.
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- Established
- 1880
- Catholics
- 570,000
- Priests
- 88
- Territory
- 23,069 km²
Parishes and churches
3 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Sacred Heart CathedralLahore · CathedralView parish
- Marian Shrine of MariamabadMariamabadView parish
- St. Joseph's ChurchLahoreView parish
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The bishop
- Archbishop
- Khalid Rehmat, O.F.M. Cap.
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The cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Lahore stands in Lahore, 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
In Punjab province, Pakistan, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lahore stands as a Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese, its episcopal seat at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore.
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