Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam
Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam | |
Basic data | |
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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 |
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Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam | 247.231 | 12,640,684 |
Diocese of Eluru | 295,478 | 8,070,000 |
Diocese of Guntur | 218,900 | 6,066,380 |
Diocese of Nellore | 80,876 | 6,906,000 |
Diocese of Srikakulam | 59,670 | 3,001,980 |
Diocese of Vijayawada | 253,704 | 5,142,614 |
Visakhapatnam Church Province | 1,155,859 | 46,970,652 |
Ordinaries
Apostolic Pro-Vicars of Vizagapatam
- Jacques Henri Gailhot , 1845-1847
- Sébastin-Théophille Neyret MSFS , 1848-1850
Vicars Apostolic of Vizagapatam
- Sébastin-Théophille Neyret MSFS, 1850-1862
- Jean-Marie Tissot MSFS, 1863-1886
Bishops of Vizagapatam
- Jean-Marie Tissot MSFS, 1886-1890
- Jean-Marie Clerc MSFS, 1891-1926
- Pierre Rossillon MSFS, 1926-1947
- Joseph-Alphonse Baud MSFS, 1947-1950
Bishops of Visakhapatnam
- Joseph-Alphonse Baud MSFS, 1950–1966
- Ignatius Gopu MSFS, 1966-1981
- Mariadas Kagithapu MSFS, 1982-2001
Archbishops of Visakhapatnam
- Mariadas Kagithapu MSFS, 2001-2012
- Prakash Mallavarapu , since 2012