Diocese of Port Blair
Portus Blairen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Port Blair, India
Latin-rite diocese covering the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, erected 22 June 1984 and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ranchi. Its seat is Stella Maris Cathedral in Port Blair, serving about 39,900 Catholics (2017), roughly 8.5% of the islands' population.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 22 June 1984
- Latin
- Portus Blairen(sis)
- Patron
- Stella Maris
- Annuario code
- 001002634
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 39,935
- Population
- 471,430
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 8.5%
- Priests
- 48
- Catholics per priest
- 832
- Extent
- 8,249 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 4.8
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
- Visuvasam Selvaraj
- Born
- 4 January 1966
- Birthplace
- Raja Annamalaipuram
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
Stella Maris Cathedral, Port Blair stands in Port Blair, 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 Ranchi
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Ranchi.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of RanchiRanchi
- Diocese of DaltonganjDaltonganj
- Diocese of DumkaDumka
- Diocese of GumlaGumla
- Diocese of HazaribagHazaribag
- Diocese of JamshedpurJamshedpur
- Diocese of KhuntiKhunti
- Diocese of SimdegaSimdega
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Port Blair gives its name to this diocese (Latin: Portus Blairen(sis)), which belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Ranchi in India and has its seat in the city of Port Blair.
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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.