:''There is also a Diocese of Barisal (and a Bishop of Barisal) in the united
Church of Bangladesh
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.''
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Barisal is a Latin
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
bishopric in the
ecclesiastical province
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of the Metropolitan of
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 metropol ...
. However it remains dependent on the missionary
Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its
cathedral
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episcopal see is
St. Peter's Cathedral, in
Barisal
Barisal ( or ; bn, বরিশাল, ), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh. It is the largest city and the administrative headquarter of both Barisal Dist ...
.
Statistics
As per 2015, it pastorally served 29,685 Catholics (0.2% of 15,183,927 total) on 20,708 km
2 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
Diocese of Chittagong,
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
of the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Dhaka
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka ( la, Archidioecesis Dhakensis) is the Latin, main Metropolitan bishop, Metropolitan Metropolitan diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, but no longer the only one. It still depends on the mi ...
.
Since Chittagong was promoted to Metropolitan Archdiocese in February 2017, Barisal become one of its two original suffragans.
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Latin Church
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, so far members of Latin missionary congregations)
;''Suffragan Bishops of Barisal''
*
Lawrence Subrata Howlader
Lawrence Subrata Howlader, C.S.C. (born 11 September 1965) is a Bangladeshi prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the bishop of the Barisal, Bangladesh, since 2016. From 2009 to 2016 he was auxiliary bishop of Chittagong, officially known ...
,
Holy Cross Fathers (C.S.C.) (2015.12.29 – 2021.02.19); previously
Titular Bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Afufenia
Afufenia (also called ''Afufeniensis'') was a Roman era city in the province of Byzacena. Its exact location is unknown, but it would have been situated in central Tunisia.
Afufenia was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric. and was menti ...
(2009.05.07 – 2015.12.29) &
Auxiliary Bishop of mother diocese
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...
*
Emmanuel Kanon Rozario (2022.06.21 – ...)
References
Sources and external links
catholic-hierarchy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barisal, Roman Catholic Diocese
Roman Catholic dioceses in Bangladesh
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Chittagong
Christian organizations established in 2015
2015 establishments in Bangladesh