Diocese of Hazaribag
Hazaribagan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Hazaribag, India
The Diocese of Hazaribag is a Latin rite diocese in Jharkhand, India, erected in 1995 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ranchi. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Hazaribagh.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 April 1995
- Latin
- Hazaribagan(us)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mines – Dhori Mata
- Annuario code
- 001001587
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 35,252
- Population
- 5,067,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.7%
- Priests
- 167
- Catholics per priest
- 211
- Extent
- 21,213 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.7
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
- Anand Jojo
- Born
- 17 May 1959
- Birthplace
- Minjiutgarha-Kutungia
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 the Resurrection, Hazaribagh stands in Hazaribag, 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 Ranchi
A suffragan of Ranchi.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of RanchiRanchi
- Diocese of DaltonganjDaltonganj
- Diocese of DumkaDumka
- Diocese of GumlaGumla
- Diocese of JamshedpurJamshedpur
- Diocese of KhuntiKhunti
- Diocese of Port BlairPort Blair
- Diocese of SimdegaSimdega
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Centered on the city of Hazaribag in India, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hazaribag (Latin: Hazaribagan(us)) sits within the ecclesiastical province of Ranchi.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, Diocesan Training Centre, Zulu Park, 825301 Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India
- Telephone
- 654.629.6754
- hzbhcdhaz@gmail.com
This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices 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.
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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.