Diocese of Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpuren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Muzaffarpur, India
Latin-rite diocese in Bihar, India, erected 6 March 1980 from the Diocese of Patna and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Patna. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi in Muzaffarpur; Catholics are a tiny minority of roughly 4,600 (2004) in a population of nearly 30 million.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 6 March 1980
- Latin
- Muzaffarpuren(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- Annuario code
- 001002323
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 4,638
- Population
- 29,436,742
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.0%
- Priests
- 41
- Catholics per priest
- 113
- Extent
- 27,120 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
- Cajetan Francis Osta
- Born
- 30 July 1961
- Birthplace
- Kathara-Bokaro
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 of Assisi, Muzaffarpur stands in Muzaffarpur, 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 Patna
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Patna.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of PatnaPatna
- Diocese of BettiahBettiah
- Diocese of BhagalpurBhagalpur
- Diocese of BuxarBuxar
- Diocese of PurneaPurnea
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, Lenin Chowk, Kalambagh Road, Muzaffarpur Dt.-842001, Bihar, India
- Telephone
- 963.1120.770
- mdiocese@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.