Territories of Roman Catholic dioceses in India

This page gives a list of the territories of the dioceses of the Catholic Church in India.

Each diocese is made up of a few Indian civil districts and is administered by a bishop. Dioceses are further grouped into Ecclesiastical provinces. The most important diocese of the province is the archdiocese and the bishop of this diocese is an archbishop. The civil district should not be confused with ecclesiastical district or deanery, which is another type of subdivision of a diocese.

All Syro-Malankara Catholics in India are under the authority of the Syro-Malankara bishops. In the Archeparchies and Eparchies within the Syro-Malabar canonical territory and in the Eparchies of Kalyan and Faridabad, the authority of the respective bishops is over the respective rites only. The Syro-Malankara, Syro-Malabar and Latin Catholics of these areas are under the respective Syro-Malankara, Syro-Malabar or Latin bishop. On the other hand, in all other Syro-Malabar dioceses (Adilabad, Bijnor, Chanda, Gorakhpur, Jagdalpur, Rajkot, Sagar, Satna and Ujjain) the authority of the Syro-Malabar bishop is over both, Syro-Malabar and Latin rite Catholics. In a similar pattern, both, Syro-Malabar and Latin rite Catholics living in all other areas are under the local Latin bishop.

In the following, the names listed after the name of the state or union territory are the names of civil districts, unless otherwise mentioned.

Latin rite provinces and dioceses of the Catholic church in India. The dioceses making up a province have different shades of the same colour

Latin Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Agra

Province of Bangalore

Province of Bhopal

Province of Bombay

Province of Calcutta

Province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar

Province of Delhi

Province of Gandhinagar

Province of Goa and Daman

Province of Guwahati

Province of Hyderabad

Province of Imphal

Province of Madras and Mylapore

Province of Madurai

Province of Nagpur

Province of Patna

Province of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

Province of Raipur

Province of Ranchi

Province of Shillong

Province of Thiruvananthapuram

Province of Verapoly

Province of Visakhapatnam

Syro-Malabar Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Eranakulam - Angamaly

Province of Changanassery

Province of Tellicherry

Province of Thrissur

Province of Kottayam

Directly under the Holy See

Syro-Malankara Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Trivandrum

Province of Tiruvalla

Directly under the Holy See

See also

References

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