Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam

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Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam
Basic data
Country India
Diocesan bishop Prakash Mallavarapu
Vicar General Karnam Joji Babu
founding 1850
surface 25,950 km²
Parishes 62 (December 31, 2009 / AP2011 )
Residents 12,640,684 (December 31, 2009 / AP2011 )
Catholics 247,231 (December 31, 2009 / AP2011 )
proportion of 2%
Diocesan priest 64 (December 31, 2009 / AP2011 )
Religious priest 89 (December 31, 2009 / AP2011 )
Catholics per priest 1,616
Friars 115 (December 31, 2009 / AP2011 )
Religious sisters 470 (December 31, 2009 / AP2011 )
rite Roman rite
cathedral St. Peter's Cathedral
Co-cathedral St. Anne's Co-Cathedral
Website official website

The Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam ( Latin Archidioecesis Visakhapatnamensis ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in India with its seat in Visakhapatnam .

The territory includes the district East Godavari and Visakhapatnam as well as parts of the district Vizianagaram in the state of Andhra Pradesh .

history

The Pro-Vicariate Apostolic Vizagapatnam was established in 1845 from cessions of territory by the Apostolic Vicariate Madras . It was on April 3, 1850 by Pope Pius IX. raised as the Apostolic Vicariate Vizagapatam .

On September 1, 1886, the Vicariate Apostolic Vizagapatam by Pope Leo XIII. with the Apostolic Constitution Humanae salutis raised to the diocese and subordinated to the Archdiocese of Madras as a suffragan . The diocese of Vizagapatam gave up on July 11, 1887 parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Nagpur . Another assignment of territory took place on July 18, 1928 to establish the Mission sui juris Cuttack . On October 21, 1950, the diocese of Vizagapatam was renamed the Diocese of Visakhapatnam . The Diocese of Visakhapatnam gave up on July 1, 1993 parts of its territory to establish the Diocese of Srikakulam . On October 16, 2001, the Visakhapatnam diocese was raised to an archbishopric by Pope John Paul II .

Ecclesiastical province

diocese Catholics Pop., Total
Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam 00247.231 012,640,684
Diocese of Eluru 00295,478 008,070,000
Diocese of Guntur 00218,900 006,066,380
Diocese of Nellore 00080,876 006,906,000
Diocese of Srikakulam 00059,670 003,001,980
Diocese of Vijayawada 00253,704 005,142,614
Visakhapatnam Church Province 01,155,859 046,970,652

Ordinaries

Apostolic Pro-Vicars of Vizagapatam

Vicars Apostolic of Vizagapatam

Bishops of Vizagapatam

Bishops of Visakhapatnam

Archbishops of Visakhapatnam

See also

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