Diocese of Dinajpur
Dinaipuren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Dinajpur, Bangladesh
Latin-rite diocese in Dinajpur District, Rajshahi Division, northwestern Bangladesh, canonically erected 25 May 1927 and a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dhaka. Its seat is St. Francis Xavier Cathedral in Dinajpur. Bishop Sebastian Tudu has led the diocese since his election on 29 October 2011 (consecrated 27 January 2012).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 25 May 1927
- Latin
- Dinaipuren(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Francis Xavier
- Annuario code
- 001001305
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 54,082
- Population
- 16,827,061
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 62
- Catholics per priest
- 872
- Extent
- 17,500 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 3.1
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
- Bishop
- Sebastian Tudu
- Born
- 17 June 1967
- Birthplace
- Changura
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. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Dinajpur stands in Dinajpur, 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 Dhaka
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Dhaka.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of DhakaDhaka
- Diocese of MymensinghMymensingh
- Diocese of RajshahiRajshahi
- Diocese of SylhetSylhet
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Dinajpur District, in Bangladesh's Rajshahi Division, holds the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dinajpur (Latin: Diœcesis Dinaipurensis), a see within the ecclesiastical province of Dhaka.
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