Diocese of Purnea
Purneaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Purnea, India
Latin-rite diocese in northeastern Bihar, India, erected 27 June 1998 from the Diocese of Dumka, covering the Purnea, Katihar, Araria, and Kishanganj districts. Initially under Ranchi, it has been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Patna since 1999, with St. Peter's Cathedral in Purnia as its seat and about 24,400 Catholics (2004).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 27 June 1998
- Latin
- Purneaën(sis)
- Patron
- Saint Peter
- Annuario code
- 001002688
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 24,391
- Population
- 8,349,215
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.3%
- Priests
- 54
- Catholics per priest
- 452
- Extent
- 15,733 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.6
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
- Francis Tirkey
- Born
- 6 June 1963
- Birthplace
- Jashpur
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. Peter's Cathedral, Purnia stands in Purnea, 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 MuzaffarpurMuzaffarpur
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Purnea is home to this diocese (Latin: Purneaen(sis)), a see within the ecclesiastical province of Patna in India.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop's House, Maharajaji Hata, P.O., Purnea-854301, Bihar, India
- Telephone
- [06454]242.848
- bhpurnea@yahoo.co.in
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.