This article gives a list of the territories of the dioceses of the Catholic Church in India.
Contents
- Latin Ecclesiastical Provinces
- Province of Agra
- Province of Bangalore
- Province of Bhopal
- Province of Bombay
- Province of Calcutta
- Province of Calicut
- 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 Faridabad
- Province of Kalyan
- Province of Shamshabad
- Province of Tellicherry
- Province of Thrissur
- Province of Ujjain
- Archdiocese of Kottayam
- Syro-Malankara Ecclesiastical Provinces
- Province of Trivandrum
- Province of Tiruvalla
- Directly under the Holy See
- See also
- References
Each diocese 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. While they each usually consist of a few Indian civil districts, dioceses can range in size from just a portion of a district to spanning entire states. The civil district should not be confused with ecclesiastical district or deanery, which is another type of subdivision of a diocese. All Catholics in India are under the authority of the respective Syro-Malankara, Syro-Malabar or Latin bishop. Only in the areas of the Syro-Malabar dioceses of Adilabad, Bijnor, Chanda, Gorakhpur, Jagdalpur, Rajkot, Sagar, Satna and Ujjain not covered by Latin rite dioceses, the authority of the Syro-Malabar bishop is over both, Syro-Malabar and Latin rite Catholics.
In the following, the names listed after the name of the state or union territory are the names of civil districts, unless otherwise mentioned. Some newly-created districts may be missing from this list.
