Diocese of Vijayawada
| Diocese of Vijayawada | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam |
| Diocesan bishop | Joseph Raja Rao Thelegathoti |
| founding | 1933 |
| surface | 8,734 km² |
| Parishes | 77 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Residents | 5,142,614 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Catholics | 253,704 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| proportion of | 4.9% |
| Diocesan priest | 82 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Religious priest | 79 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,576 |
| Friars | 128 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| Religious sisters | 715 (December 31, 2004 / AP2005 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | St. Paul's Cathedral |
| Co-cathedral | St. Peter's Co-Cathedral |
The diocese of Vijayawada ( lat. : Dioecesis Viiayavadanus ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Vijayawada .
history
Pope Pius XI founded the Mission sui juris Bezwada with the Apostolic Constitution Christi regno on January 10, 1933 from cession of territory by the Diocese of Hyderabad .
On April 13, 1937, she was raised to the diocese, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Madras as a suffragan diocese. It was given its current name on October 21, 1950. On September 19, 1953, it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Hyderabad.
On December 9, 1976, it lost part of its territory to the diocese of Eluru . On October 16, 2001 it became part of the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam .
Ordinaries
Superior from Bezwada
- Domenico Grassi PIME (1933-13 April 1937)
Bishop of Bezwada
- Domenico Grassi PIME (April 13, 1937– October 21, 1950)
Bishops of Vijayawada
- Domenico Grassi PIME (October 21, 1950– May 9, 1951)
- Ambrose De Battista PIME (December 13, 1951– January 23, 1971)
- Joseph S. Thumma (January 23, 1971– November 8, 1996)
- Marampudi Joji (November 8, 1996– January 29, 2000, then Archbishop of Hyderabad )
- Prakash Mallavarapu (July 26, 2002 - July 3, 2012, then Archbishop of Visakhapatnam )
- Joseph Raja Rao Thelegathoti (since December 19, 2015)
territory
The diocese of Vijayawada includes the in the state of Andhra Pradesh located district Krishna .
See also
Web links
- Entry on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry on gcatholic.org (English)