Diocese of Nellore
Nelloren(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Nellore, India
Latin-rite diocese in Andhra Pradesh, India, erected 3 July 1928 from the Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam, with St. Joseph's Cathedral in Nellore as its seat and about 79,800 Catholics (2004).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 3 July 1928
- Latin
- Nelloren(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus
- Annuario code
- 001002372
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 79,765
- Population
- 6,601,312
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 1.2%
- Priests
- 134
- Catholics per priest
- 595
- Extent
- 30,800 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.6
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
- Doraboina Moses Prakasam
- Born
- 2 October 1957
- Birthplace
- Cuddapah
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, Nellore stands in Nellore, 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 Visakhapatnam
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of VisakhapatnamVisakhapatnam
- Diocese of EluruEluru
- Diocese of GunturGuntur
- Diocese of SrikakulamSrikakulam
- Diocese of VijayawadaVijayawada
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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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.