Ecclesiastical province Bangalore Denomination Roman Catholic Area 29,950 km² Metropolitan archbishop Bernard Moras | Parishes 135 Established 13 February 1940 Country India Secular priests 1,632 | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2012)
29,890,000
425,000 (1.4%) Rite Latin Rite or Roman rite Cathedral St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Bangalore | ||
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangalore (Latin: Archidioecesis Bangalorensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in India. It was erected as the Diocese of Bangalore on February 13, 1940 by Pope Pius XII, and elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese on September 19, 1953, with the suffragan sees of Belgaum, Bellary, Chikmagalur, Gulbarga, Karwar, Mangalore, Udupi, Mysore, and Shimoga.
The archdiocese's mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is the St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral; Bangalore also houses St. Mary's Basilica. Bernard Blasius Moras was appointed Archbishop of Bangalore by Pope John Paul II on July 22, 2004.
List of bishops and archbishops of Bangalore
References
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangalore Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA