Diocese of Bellary
Bellaryen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Bellary, India
Latin rite diocese in Karnataka, India, begun as a mission in 1928 from the Diocese of Hyderabad and Archdiocese of Madras and promoted to diocese on 10 March 1949. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bangalore, with St. Anthony's Cathedral in Bellary as its seat. Its patron is St. Anthony of Padua.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 March 1949
- Latin
- Bellaryen(sis)
- Patron
- St. Anthony of Padua
- Annuario code
- 001000874
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 30,718
- Population
- 6,172,289
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.5%
- Priests
- 111
- Catholics per priest
- 277
- Extent
- 24,973 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.2
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
- Henry D'Souza
- Born
- 9 September 1949
- Birthplace
- Kinnigoly
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. Anthony's Cathedral, Bellary stands in Bellary, 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 Bangalore
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Bangalore.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BangaloreBangalore
- Diocese of BelgaumBelgaum
- Diocese of ChikmagalurChikmagalur
- Diocese of GulbargaGulbarga
- Diocese of KarwarKarwar
- Diocese of MangaloreMangalore
- Diocese of MysoreMysore
- Diocese of ShimogaShimoga
- Diocese of UdupiUdupi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With its episcopal see at Bellary, the Diocese of Bellary (Latin: Bellaryen(sis)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in India, a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangalore.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.