Diocese of Dinajpur
| Diocese of Dinajpur | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Ecclesiastical province | Dhaka |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Dhaka |
| Diocesan bishop | Sebastian Tudu |
| founding | 1927 |
| surface | 12,638 km² |
| Parishes | 16 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
| Residents | 16,827,061 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
| Catholics | 54,082 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
| proportion of | 0.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 32 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
| Religious priest | 27 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 917 |
| Friars | 44 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
| Religious sisters | 231 (2013 / AP 2014 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Bengali |
| cathedral | St. Francis Xavier Cathedral |
The Bistum Dinajpur ( lat. : Dioecesis Dinaipurensis ) is an in Bangladesh preferred Roman Catholic diocese based in Dinajpur .
history
Pope Pius XI founded it with the Breve Supremi Apostolatus on May 25, 1927 from cession of territory by the Diocese of Krishnagar and it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Calcutta as a suffragan diocese.
On January 17, 1952, it lost part of its territory to the Apostolic Prefecture of Malda and the Diocese of Jalpaiguri . It lost another part on May 21, 1990 to the Diocese of Rajshahi .
Bishops of Dinajpur
- Santino Taveggia PIME , January 18, 1927–2. June 1928
- Giovanni Battista Anselmo PIME, February 7, 1929-16. October 1947
- Joseph Obert PIME, December 9, 1948–5. September 1968
- Michael Rozario , September 5, 1968-17. December 1977, then Archbishop of Dhaka
- Theotonius Gomes CSC , December 19, 1978-23. February 1996
- Moses M. Costa CSC, July 5, 1996-6. April 2011, then Bishop of Chittagong
- Sebastian Tudu , since October 29, 2011