Diocese of Nalgonda
Nalgondaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nalgonda, India
Latin-rite diocese in Telangana, India, erected 31 May 1976 from the Archdiocese of Hyderabad and the Diocese of Warangal, and a suffragan of Hyderabad. Its seat is Mariarani Cathedral (Mary Queen of the Apostles) in Nalgonda, serving about 67,000 Catholics (2004).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 31 May 1976
- Latin
- Nalgondaën(sis)
- Patron
- Mary Queen of Apostles
- Annuario code
- 001002340
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 66,997
- Population
- 5,622,168
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 1.2%
- Priests
- 129
- Catholics per priest
- 519
- Extent
- 32,161 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.1
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
- Dhaman Kumar Karanam, MSFS
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
Mariarani Cathedral, Nalgonda stands in Nalgonda, 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 Hyderabad
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Hyderabad.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of HyderabadHyderabad
- Diocese of CuddapahCuddapah
- Diocese of KhammamKhammam
- Diocese of KurnoolKurnool
- Diocese of WarangalWarangal
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, Rashtrapathi Road, Nalgonda-508001, Telangana, A.P., India
- Telephone
- 738.6966.566; 801.9484.151
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.