Diocese of Simla and Chandigarh

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Diocese of Simla and Chandigarh
Basic data
Country India
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Delhi
Diocesan bishop Ignatius Loyola Mascarenhas
Vicar General Dominic Bosco
founding 1959
surface 51,120 km²
Parishes 42 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Residents 17,106,000 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Catholics 12,750 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
proportion of 0.1%
Diocesan priest 40 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Religious priest 56 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Catholics per priest 133
Friars 63 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
Religious sisters 280 ( 12/31/2004 / AP2005 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Hindi
English
cathedral Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Joseph
Co-cathedral Christ the King Cathedral
Website http://www.simlachandigarhdiocese.com/

The diocese of Simla and Chandigarh ( lat . : Dioecesis Simlensis et Chandigarhensis ) is a Roman Catholic diocese based in Simla in India .

history

Pope John XXIII founded the diocese Simla with the Apostolic Constitution Indicae genti on June 4, 1959 by splitting the Archdiocese of Delhi and Simla , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.

By a decree of the Propaganda Fide it took its current name on May 12, 1964.

territory

The diocese of Balasore comprises the districts :

  • Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti, Kullu, Mandi, Bilaspur, Shimla, Solan and Sirmaur in the state of Himachal Pradesh ;
  • Panchkula, Ambala, Yamuna Nagar, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Panipat, Kaithal, Jinde, Hisar, Bhiwani, and Sirsa in the state of Haryana ;
  • Patiala, Sangrur, Mansa, Bathinda, Fatehgarh Sahib and Rupnagar in Punjab State ;
  • and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.

Ordinaries

Bishop of Simla

Bishops of Simla and Chandigarh

See also

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