Diocese of Bettiah
Diocese of Bettiah | |
Basic data | |
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Country | India |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Patna |
Diocesan bishop | Peter Sebastian Goveas |
founding | 1892 |
surface | 10,689 km² |
Parishes | 13 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
Residents | 16,518,000 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
Catholics | 5,913 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
proportion of | 0% |
Diocesan priest | 18 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
Religious priest | 29 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
Catholics per priest | 126 |
Friars | 36 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
Religious sisters | 133 (December 31, 2015 / AP2016 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
cathedral | Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
The diocese of Bettiah ( lat. : Dioecesis Bettiahensis ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Bettiah .
history
The diocese of Bettiah was founded in 1892 by Pope Leo XIII. from the cession of territory by the diocese of Allahabad as Apostolic Prefecture of Bettiah . The Apostolic Prefecture of Bettiah was dissolved in 1918 and the territory was ceded to the Apostolic Vicariate of Patna .
On June 27, 1998, the former Apostolic Vicariate of Bettiah was reestablished from territory of the Muzaffarpur diocese as the diocese of Bettiah . It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Patna as a suffragan .
territory
The diocese of Bettiah includes the districts of Gopalganj , Pashchim Champaran , Purba Champaran , Saran and Siwan in the state of Bihar .
Ordinaries of Bettiah
Apostolic Prefects
- Eugenio Remigio Schwarz OFMCap , 1892–1918
Bishops
- Victor Henry Thakur , 1998–2013, then Archbishop of Raipur
- Peter Sebastian Goveas , since 2017