Diocese of Meerut
Meeruten(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Meerut, India
Latin-rite diocese in western Uttar Pradesh, India, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Agra. Established 20 February 1956 from the Archdiocese of Agra. Its seat is St Joseph's Cathedral in Meerut.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 20 February 1956
- Latin
- Meeruten(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces
- Annuario code
- 001002210
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 27,192
- Population
- 31,391,516
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 141
- Catholics per priest
- 193
- Extent
- 28,337 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.0
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
- Bhaskar Jesuraj
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 Joseph's Cathedral, Meerut stands in Meerut, 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 Agra
A suffragan of Agra.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of AgraAgra
- Diocese of AjmerAjmer
- Diocese of AllahabadAllahabad
- Diocese of BareillyBareilly
- Diocese of JaipurJaipur
- Diocese of JhansiJhansi
- Diocese of LucknowLucknow
- Diocese of UdaipurUdaipur
- Diocese of VaranasiVaranasi
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, 283 Roorkee Road, Meerut Cantt.-250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Telephone
- 905.8956.347
- mrtdiocese@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.