Diocese of Aurangabad
Aurangabaden(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Aurangabad, India
Latin rite diocese in Maharashtra, India, erected on 17 December 1977 from the Diocese of Amravati and the Archdiocese of Hyderabad. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Nagpur, with the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales in Aurangabad as its seat.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 17 December 1977
- Latin
- Aurangabaden(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Gonçalo Garcia, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001000756
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 15,623
- Population
- 10,258,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.2%
- Priests
- 74
- Catholics per priest
- 211
- Extent
- 64,525 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
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
- Bernard Lancy Pinto
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
Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales, Aurangabad stands in Aurangabad, 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 Nagpur
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Nagpur.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of NagpurNagpur
- Diocese of AmravatiAmravati
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Seated in the city of Aurangabad, this Roman Catholic diocese (Latin: Aurangabaden(sis)) belongs to India's ecclesiastical province of Nagpur.
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The see's own website · Wikipedia
Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.