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Diocese of Sambalpur

Sambalpuren(sis)

Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Sambalpur, India

Latin-rite diocese in western Odisha, India, erected 14 June 1951 from territory of the Archdiocese of Calcutta and the Dioceses of Nagpur and Ranchi. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, with its seat at the Cathedral of St Joseph the Worker in Sambalpur.

The see

Rank
Suffragan diocese
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
14 June 1951
Latin
Sambalpuren(sis)
Patron
Saint Joseph
Annuario code
001002860

The see in figures

Catholics
40,256
Population
7,548,100
Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
0.5%
Priests
149
Catholics per priest
270
Extent
37,299 km²
Catholics per km²
1.1

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
Niranjan Sual Singh

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

Cathedral of St Joseph the Worker, Sambalpur stands in Sambalpur, 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:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Seated in the city of Sambalpur, this diocese (Latin: Sambalpuren(sis)) belongs to the ecclesiastical province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar in India.

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Sources

The see's own website · Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.