Diocese of Dibrugarh
| Diocese of Dibrugarh | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Guwahati |
| Diocesan bishop | Joseph Aind SDB |
| Coadjutor | Albert Hemrom |
| founding | 1951 |
| surface | 26,192 km² |
| Parishes | 37 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 6,989,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 117,236 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 1.7% |
| Diocesan priest | 69 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 62 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 895 |
| Friars | 126 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 309 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart |
| Website | www.dibrugarhdiocese.org |
The diocese of Dibrugarh ( Latin Dioecesis Dibrugarhensis , English Diocese of Dibrugarh ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Dibrugarh .
history
Pope Pius XII founded it with the Apostolic Constitution Ad aptius fovendum on July 12, 1951 from cession of territory by the Diocese of Shillong and it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Guwahati as a suffragan diocese.
It later lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of new dioceses:
- January 16, 1964 to the diocese of Tezpur ;
- January 29, 1973 to the Diocese of Kohima-Imphal ;
- December 7, 2005 to the diocese of Miao .
territory
The diocese of Dibrugarh includes the districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat and Golaghat in the state of Assam .
Bishops of Dibrugarh
- Orestes Marengo SDB (July 12, 1951 - July 6, 1964, then Bishop of Tezpur )
- Hubert D'Rosario SDB (July 6, 1964 - June 26, 1969, then Archbishop of Gauhati - Shillong )
- Robert Kerketta SDB (May 21, 1970 - October 24, 1980, then Bishop of Tezpur )
- Thomas Menamparampil SDB (June 19, 1981 - March 30, 1992, then Bishop of Guwahati )
- Joseph Aind SDB (since November 11, 1994)