Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur
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Archdiocese of Nagpur Archidioecesis Nagpurensis नागपूर बिशपच्या अधिकारातील प्रदेश | |
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St Francis de Sales Our Lady of Lourdes | |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Elias Joseph Gonsalves |
| Vicar General | Anthony D'Souza |
| Website | |
| Website of the Archdiocese | |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur (
Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
.
Its
St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, in the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra
state.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 25,500 Catholics (0.2% of 12,360,000 total) on 59,042 km2 in 34 parishes and 12 missions with 142 priests (48 diocesan, 94 religious), 798 lay religious (265 brothers, 533 sisters) and 23 seminarians.
History
- Established on July 11, 1887, as Diocese of Nagpur, on territory split off from the Diocese of Vizagapatam.
- It lost territories repeatedly : on 1932.07.18 to establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Indore, on 1951.06.14 to establish the Diocese of Sambalpur and on 1951.12.13 to establish the then Diocese of Raigarh–Ambikapur
- Promoted on September 19, 1953, as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nagpur.
- Lost more territories thrice again : on 1955.05.08 to establish its Apostolic Exarchate of Chanda(now also a suffragan diocese of Nagpur)
Ecclesiastical province
Its
Syro-Oriental Rite
:
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Amravati, its daughter
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Aurangabad
- Eastern Catholicdaughter
Episcopal ordinaries
(all Latin Rite, initially missionary members of a Latin congregation)
- Suffragan Bishops of Nagpur
- Charles-Félix Pelvat, Fransalians(M.S.F.S.) (born France) (October 2, 1893 – death July 23, 1900)
- Jean-Marie Crochet (born France) (October 25, 1900 – death June 6, 1903)
- Etienne-Marie Bonaventure, M.S.F.S. (born France) (September 17, 1904 – death March 12, 1907)
- François-Etienne Coppel, M.S.F.S. (born France) (June 22, 1907 – death March 16, 1933)
- Louis-François Gayet, M.S.F.S. (born France) (February 1, 1934 – death August 26, 1950)
- Eugene D’Souza, M.S.F.S. (first Indian incumbent) (July 12, 1951 – September 19, 1953 see below)
- Metropolitan Archbishops of Nagpur
- Eugene D’Souza, M.S.F.S. (see above September 19, 1953 – September 13, 1963), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Bhopal (India) (1963.09.13 – death 1994.03.26)
- Leonard Joseph Raymond (January 16, 1964 – death February 1, 1974) (born Pakistan), previously Bishop of Allahabad (India) (1947.04.10 – 1964.01.16)
- Coadjutor Bishop of Jabalpur (India) (1964.11.12 – 1965.12.17), succeeding as Bishop of Jabalpur(1965.12.17 – 1975.07.01)
- Scampa (1993.12.06 – 1999.02.09); next Bishop of suffragan Aurangabad(India) (1999.02.09 – death 2005.08.14)
- Abraham Viruthakulangara (January 17, 1998 – April 19, 2018), previously Bishop of Khandwa (India) (1977.03.04 – 1998.01.17).
- Elias Joseph Gonsalves – 2018.12.03 – present
Saints and causes for canonisation
- Servant of God Sr. Marie Gertrude Gros, SMMI[1]
References
- ^ "Saints & Blessed – CCBI". Retrieved 17 October 2019.
Sources and external links
- GCatholic.org, with incumbent biography links – data for all sections [self-published]
- Catholic Hierarchy [self-published]