Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dhaka (Latin: Archidioecesis Dhakensis)^[1] is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh. It was erected it as the Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Bengal by Pope Pius IX in 1850,^[1] promoted to the rank of a diocese on September 1, 1886,^[1] and renamed as the Diocese of Dacca in 1887.^[1] It was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Pius XII on July 15, 1950,^[1] with the suffragan sees of Chittagong, Dinajpur, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, and Sylhet. Pope John Paul II renamed it as the Archdiocese of Dhaka on October 19, 1982.^[2]

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is St. Mary's Cathedral. As the only metropolitan in Bangladesh, it is also the primatial see of that country. The current Archbishop of Dhaka is His Excellency Patrick D'Rozario, formerly Bishop of Chittagong, having been appointed Coadjutor Archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI on November 2010, and succeeded Archbishop Paulinus Costa, CSC, in October 2011.

List of Ordinaries of Dhaka

• Peter Dufal, CSC (1860 - 1866)
• Giordano Balsiper, OSB (1878 - ?)
• Augustin Louage, CSC (1890 - 1894)
• Peter Joseph Hurth, CSC (1894 - 1909)
• Frederick Linneborn, CSC (1909 - 1915)
• Amand-Théophile-Joseph Legrand, CSC (1916 - 1929)
• Timothy Joseph Crowley, CSC (1929 - 1945)
• Lawrence Leo Graner, CSC (1947 - 1967)
• Theotonius Amal Ganguly, CSC (1967 - 1977)
• Michael Rozario (1977 - 2005)
• Paulinus Costa (2005 - 2011)
• Patrick D'Rozario (2011 - present)

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Bangladesh
• List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Bangladesh

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Giga-Catholic Information

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Archdiocese of Dhaka". Catholic-Hierarchy. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/ddhak.html. Retrieved 28 April 2011. 
2. ^ Dhaka (Archdiocese) in Catholic Hierarchy

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