Territories of Catholic dioceses in India

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

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 Syro-Malabar dioceses of 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 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

The map of the Diocese of Mangalore before the separation of Udupi district in the north into the Diocese of Udupi

Province of Bhopal

Province of Bombay

Map showing the location of the Archdiocese of Bombay in India

Province of Calcutta

Map showing the location of the Archdiocese of Calcutta in India

Province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar

Province of Delhi

Map showing the location of the Archdiocese of Delhi in India
Map showing the location of the Diocese of Jammu-Srinagar in India

Province of Gandhinagar

Province of Goa and Daman

Map showing the location of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman in India

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

Map of the Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

Province of Raipur

Province of Ranchi

Map showing the location of the Archdiocese of Ranchi in India

Province of Shillong

Province of Thiruvananthapuram

Province of Verapoly

Map showing the location of the Diocese of Cochin in India

Province of Visakhapatnam

Syro-Malabar Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Eranakulam - Angamaly

Province of Changanassery

Province of Tellicherry

Map of the Eparchy of Mandya

Province of Thrissur

Province of Kottayam

Directly under the Holy See

Map showing the territory of the Eparchy of Shamshabad in yellow

Syro-Malankara Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Trivandrum

Province of Tiruvalla

Directly under the Holy See

See also

References

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