Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Calcutta (Latin: "Archidioecesis Calcuttensis") is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in India. It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Bengal in 1834 by Pope Gregory XVI, and renamed as the Apostolic Vicariate of Western Bengal in 1850 by Gregory's successor, Pope Pius IX.
Pope Leo XIII elevated it to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese and renamed it as Calcutta on September 1, 1886, with the suffragan sees of Asansol, Bagdogra, Baruipur, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Krishnagar, and Raiganj.
The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral; Calcutta also houses the Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary. The current Archbishop of Calcutta is "His Excellency" Lucas Sirkar, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II on April 2, 2002.
=List of Ordinaries of Calcutta=
*Patrick Joseph Carew (1842 - )
*Walter Herman Jacobus Steins, SJ (1867 - 1877)
*Paul François Marie Goethals, SJ (1877 - 1901)
*Brizio Meuleman, SJ (1902 - 1924)
*Ferdinand Périer, SJ (1924 - 1960)
*Vivian Anthony Dyer (1960 - 1962)
*Albert Vincent D'Souza (1962 - 1969)
*Lawrence Trevor Picachy, SJ (1969 - 1986)
*Henry Sebastian D'Souza (1986 - 2002)
*Lucas Sirkar, SDB (2002 - present)
ee also
*Catholic Ecclesiastical Provinces in India
*Roman Catholicism in India
External links
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dcalc.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.gcatholic.com/dioceses/diocese/calc0.htm Giga-Catholic Information]
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