Diocese of Rourkela
Rurkelaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Rourkela, India
Latin-rite diocese in Odisha, India, erected 4 July 1979 from the Diocese of Sambalpur and a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. Its seat is Sacred Heart Cathedral in Rourkela; with about 270,800 Catholics (2020, 12.4% of the population) across 44 parishes it is one of the larger Catholic communities in eastern India.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 4 July 1979
- Latin
- Rurkelaën(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Holy Rosary
- Annuario code
- 001002776
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 270,817
- Population
- 2,182,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 12.4%
- Priests
- 187
- Catholics per priest
- 1,448
- Extent
- 9,675 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 28
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
- Kishore Kumar Kujur
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
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rourkela stands in Rourkela, 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 Cuttack-Bhubaneswar
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Cuttack-BhubaneswarCuttack-Bhubaneswar
- Diocese of BalasoreBalasore
- Diocese of BerhampurBerhampur
- Diocese of RayagadaRayagada
- Diocese of SambalpurSambalpur
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The city of Rourkela is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Rurkelaën(sis)), which lies within the ecclesiastical province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in India.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Bishop’s House, Hamirpur, Sundargarh Dt., P.O. Rourkela-769003, Orissa, India
- Telephone
- [0661]2640.702
- cdrklgp@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.