Diocese of Baroda
| Diocese of Baroda | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Gandhinagar |
| Diocesan bishop | Godfrey de Rozario SJ |
| founding | 1966 |
| surface | 40,365 km² |
| Parishes | 49 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 22,120,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 94,589 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 0.4% |
| Diocesan priest | 43 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 139 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 520 |
| Friars | 165 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 347 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral |
The diocese of Baroda ( lat. : Dioecesis Barodensis ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Vadodara (Baroda).
history
The Diocese of Baroda was on September 29, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. built with the Apostolic Constitution Christi Regnum from cessions of territory of the Archdiocese of Bombay and subordinated to this as a suffragan . On November 11, 2002, the Diocese of Baroda was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar as a suffragan.
territory
The Diocese of Baroda includes the districts of Bharuch , Dahod , Dang , Narmada , Navsari , Panchmahal , Surat , Vadodara and Valsad in the state of Gujarat .
Bishops of Baroda
- Ignatius Salvador D'Souza SJ , 1966–1986
- Francis Leo Braganza SJ, 1987-1997
- Godfrey de Rozario SJ, since 1997
See also
Web links
- Description on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul VI: Const. Apost. Christi Regnum , AAS 59 (1967), n.3, pp. 208ff.