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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Barisal
:''There is also a Diocese of Barisal (and a Bishop of Barisal) in the united Church of Bangladesh.'' The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barisal is a Latin suffragan bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chittagong. However it remains dependent on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Peter's Cathedral, in Barisal. Statistics As per 2015, it pastorally served 29,685 Catholics (0.2% of 15,183,927 total) on 20,708 km2 in 5 parishes with 19 priests (13 diocesan, 6 religious), 33 lay religious (4 brothers, 29 sisters) and 3 seminarians. History Established on 29 December 2015 as Diocese of Barisal, on territory split off from Roman Catholic Diocese of Chittagong, Diocese of Chittagong, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dhaka. Since Chittagong was promoted to Metropolitan Archdiocese in February 2017, Barisal become one of its two original suffragan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Chittagong
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chittagong ( la, Archidioecesis Chittagongensis), renamed Chattogram on 28 December 2018, is an archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Bangladesh. The Archdiocese of Chittagong is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province of Chittagong, which includes the suffragan dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Khulna and Roman Catholic Diocese of Barisal, both in Bangladesh. However it remains dependent on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. It was renamed the Archdiocese of Chattogram in 2018. Its cathedral is Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Cathedral, in the Bengal city of Chittagong. The Archdiocese of Chittagong comprises the 17 civil districts of Chittagong: Cox's Bazar, Bandarban, Rangamati, Khagrachori, Noakhali, Feni, Laxmipur, Bhola, Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Barisal, Jhalakathi, Borguna, Gopalganj, Madaripur and Shariatpur. The Archdiocese is in the southern part of Bangladesh and cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |