Sambalpur bishopric
| Sambalpur bishopric | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar |
| Diocesan bishop | Niranjan Sual Singh |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Lucas Kerketta SVD |
| founding | 1951 |
| surface | 37,299 km² |
| Parishes | 22 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Residents | 7,139,384 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Catholics | 34,624 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| proportion of | 0.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 25 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Religious priest | 42 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 517 |
| Friars | 48 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Religious sisters | 207 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral |
The Diocese of Sambalpur ( lat. : Dioecesis Sambalpurensis ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in the town of Sambalpur .
history
Pope Pius XII founded it with the Apostolic Constitution Novarum dioecesium on June 14, 1951 from cessions of territory from the dioceses of Nagpur , Ranchi and the Archdiocese of Calcuttas , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
On July 4, 1979, it lost part of its territory to the diocese of Rourkela .
territory
The diocese of Sambalpur includes the districts of Balangir, Sambalpur and Dhenkanal in the state of Odisha .
Bishops of Sambalpur
- Hermann Westermann SVD (June 14, 1951 - February 28, 1974)
- Raphael Cheenath SVD (February 28, 1974 - July 1, 1985, then Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar)
- Lucas Kerketta SVD (November 17, 1986 - July 26, 2013)
- Niranjan Sual Singh (since July 26, 2013)