Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi (

in northern India.

Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Sacred Heart Cathedral, in the national capital city of New Delhi

History

• 13 September 1910: Established as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Simla, on territory split off from the Metropolitan
  Diocese of Lahore
• 13 April 1937: Renamed as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Delhi and Simla
• 4 June 1959: Renamed as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Delhi, having lost territory to establish as suffragan the Diocese of Simla

, in February 1986 and November 1999

Statistics

As of 2014^[update], the diocese served 115,300 Catholics (0.4% of the total population of 26,810,000) in 15,420 square kilometres (5,950 sq mi), with 60 parishes and 4 missions. Personnel consisted of 301 priests (130 diocesan, 171 religious), 1,006 religious (391 brothers, 615 sisters) and 25 seminarians.^{[citation needed]}

Ordinaries

(all Latin Church)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Simla

• Archbishop Anselm Edward John Kenealy, OFMCap (21 December 1910 – 13 January 1936 see below)
  • Titular Archbishop of Ratiaria
    (13 January 1936 – death 8 December 1943)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Delhi and Simla

• Silvestro Patrizio Mulligan, OFMCap (13 April 1937 – death 16 August 1950), Titular Archbishop emeritus of Cyrrhus (1950.08.16 – 1950.10.23)
  • Apostolic Administrator
    Father John Burke (1950 – 12 April 1951) (later Bishop)
• Joseph Alexander Fernandes (12 April 1951 – 4 June 1959)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Delhi

• Joseph Alexander Fernandes (4 June 1959 – 16 September 1967)
• Angelo Innocent Fernandes (16 September 1967 – 19 November 1990)
• Alan Basil de Lastic (19 November 1990 – 20 June 2000)
• Vincent Michael Conçessao
  (7 September 2000 – 30 November 2012)
  • Auxiliary Bishop
    : Franco Mulakkal (17 January 2009 – 13 June 2013)
• Anil Joseph Thomas Couto (30 November 2012 – ...)

Ecclesiastical province

Delhi's

dioceses:

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Jammu–Srinagar
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Simla and Chandigarh

Sources and external links

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Archdiocese website

See also

• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in India

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