Archdiocese of Guwahati
Archdiocese of Guwahati | |
Basic data | |
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Country | India |
Diocesan bishop | John Moolachira |
Emeritus diocesan bishop | Thomas Menamparampil SDS |
Vicar General | Varghese Kizhakevely |
founding | 1992 |
surface | 17,551 km² |
Parishes | 45 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Residents | 7,619,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics | 56,150 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
proportion of | 0.7% |
Diocesan priest | 37 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious priest | 137 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Catholics per priest | 323 |
Friars | 147 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
Religious sisters | 510 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
cathedral | Christ the Bearer of Good News Cathedral |
Co-cathedral | St. Joseph's Co-Cathedral |
Website | official website |
The Archdiocese of Guwahati ( Latin Archidioecesis Guvahatina , English Archdiocese of Guwahati ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in India with its seat in Guwahati .
The Archdiocese of Guwahati comprises the districts of Nagaon , Morigaon , Kamrup Metropolitan, Kamrup , Nalbai and Goalpara in the state of Assam .
history
Pope John Paul II founded the Diocese of Guwahati with the Apostolic Constitution Opitulante quidem on March 30, 1992 from cessions of territory from the Dioceses of Tezpur , Tura and the Archdiocese of Shillong , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.
With the Apostolic Constitution Indorum ecclesiales it was elevated to a metropolitan bishopric on July 10, 1995 .
On May 10, 2000 it lost part of its territory for the establishment of the Bongaigaon diocese .
Ecclesiastical province
- Archdiocese of Guwahati
Ordinaries
bishop
- Thomas Menamparampil ( SDB ), 1992-1995
Archbishops
- Thomas Menamparampil (SDB), 1995–2012
- John Moolachira , since 2012
See also
Web links
- Internet presence of the archbishopric (English)
- Entry on Archdiocese of Guwahati on gcatholic.org (English)
- Entry on Archdiocese of Guwahati on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)