Diocese of Jabalpur
Iabalpuren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Jabalpur, India
Latin-rite diocese in Madhya Pradesh, India, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bhopal. Erected as a diocese on 5 July 1954, elevated from the Apostolic Prefecture of Jabalpur (1932, from the Dioceses of Allahabad and Nagpur). Its seat is the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Jabalpur.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 July 1954
- Latin
- Iabalpuren(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Peter, Saint Paul of Tarsus
- Annuario code
- 001001701
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 28,787
- Population
- 9,032,285
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 136
- Catholics per priest
- 212
- Extent
- 52,980 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.5
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
- Jesu Gaspar Valan Arasu
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 Peter and St Paul, Jabalpur stands in Jabalpur, 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 Bhopal
A suffragan of Bhopal.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of BhopalBhopal
- Diocese of GwaliorGwalior
- Diocese of IndoreIndore
- Diocese of JhabuaJhabua
- Diocese of KhandwaKhandwa
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Located in the city of Jabalpur in India, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jabalpur (Latin: Iabalpuren(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Bhopal.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, Sneh Sadan, 599 South Civil Lines, Jabalpur-482001, M.P., India
- Telephone
- [0761]262.24.13
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.