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Diocese of Poona Dioecesis Poonensis | |
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St. Patrick's Cathedral, Poona | |
Location | |
Country | India |
Metropolitan | Bombay |
Statistics | |
Area | 49,687 km2 (19,184 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2005) 24,305,883 64,234 (0.3%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | St. Patrick’s Cathedral |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Sede Vacante |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Oswald Gracias |
Apostolic Administrator | Rev. Fr Roque Alphonso |
Bishops emeritus | Thomas Dabre |
Website | |
Website of the Diocese |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Poona is a diocese located in the city of Pune in the ecclesiastical province of Archdiocese of Mumbai in India.
The Poona Diocese consists of the civil districts of Pune, Satara, Solapur, Sangli & Kolhapur city. n 1850, St. Patrick's Church, the present cathedral, was built.
Poona became a Vicariate Apostolic by dismemberment from Bombay on March 8, 1854, and was turned over to the Jesuits. The Vicar Apostolic of Bombay remained Administrator till the Hierarchy was established in 1886. The Jesuit Bernard Bieder-Linden was appointed its first bishop.
On October 20, 1953, the Catholics of Ratnagiri District and those of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Pune, who formerly belonged to the Archdiocese of Goa, were placed under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Poona. On November 30, 1953, the districts of Dharwar and Bijapur, formerly in the Poona Diocese were attached to the newly constituted Diocese of Belgaum.
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