Diocese of Krishnagar
| Diocese of Krishnagar | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Calcutta |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Joseph Suren Gomes SDS |
| founding | July 19, 1870 |
| surface | 9,251 km² |
| Parishes | 20 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 11,591,600 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 64,906 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 0.6% |
| Diocesan priest | 38 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 31 (December 31, 2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 941 |
| Friars | 48 (12/31/2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 521 (12/31/2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | Cathedral of the Holy Redeemer |
The diocese Krishnagar ( lat. : Dioecesis Krishnagarensis ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Krishnanagar , State of West Bengal .
history
Pope Pius IX founded the Mission sui juris Zentralbengalen with the Apostolic Constitution Christi regno on 1855 from cession of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate West Bengal .
On July 19, 1870, she was promoted to the Apostolic Prefecture . On September 1, 1886, she was raised to the diocese, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Calcutta as a suffragan diocese.
In the following year the diocese took its current name. The cathedral was destroyed by an earthquake in 1897 and rebuilt two years later.
It later lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of new dioceses:
- December 15, 1889 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Assam ;
- May 25, 1927 to the Diocese of Dinajpur ;
- January 3, 1952 to the Diocese of Khulna .
territory
The diocese of Krishnagar includes the districts of Murshidabad and Nadia , both in West Bengal.
Ordinaries
Bishop of Central Bengal
- Francesco Pozzi PIME (November 25, 1886–1887)
Bishops of Krishnagar
- Francesco Pozzi PIME (1887– October 22, 1905)
- Santino Taveggia PIME (23 August 1906–18 January 1927, then Bishop of Dinajpur )
- Stephen Ferrando SDB (July 9, 1934– November 26, 1935, then Bishop of Shillong )
- Louis La Ravoire Morrow SDS (May 25, 1939– October 31, 1969)
- Matthew Baroi SDS (September 17, 1973– April 4, 1983)
- Lucas Sirkar SDB (June 22, 1984– April 14, 2000, Coadjutor Archbishop of Calcutta )
- Joseph Suren Gomes SDS (April 17, 2002– April 17, 2019)
- Sedis vacancy (since April 17, 2019)