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Territories of Catholic dioceses in India

This article gives a list of the territories of the dioceses of the Catholic Church in India.

Each diocese is administered by a bishop. Dioceses are further grouped into ecclesiastical provinces. The most important diocese of the province is the archdiocese, and the bishop of this diocese is an archbishop. While they each usually consist of a few Indian civil districts, dioceses can range in size from just a portion of a district to spanning entire states. The civil district should not be confused with ecclesiastical district or deanery, which is another type of subdivision of a diocese.

All Catholics in India are under the authority of the respective Syro-Malankara, Syro-Malabar, or Latin bishop (personal jurisdiction). Only in the areas of the Syro-Malabar dioceses of Adilabad, Bijnor, Chanda, Gorakhpur, Jagdalpur, Rajkot, Sagar, Satna, and Ujjain, not covered by Latin rite dioceses, the authority of the Syro-Malabar bishop is over both Syro-Malabar and Latin rite Catholics.

It is to be noted that the territory of the Kingdom of Bhutan completely falls under the territorial jurisdiction of the Bishop of Darjeeling.

In the following, the names listed after the name of the state or union territory are the names of civil districts, unless otherwise mentioned. Some newly-created districts may be missing from this list.

Latin Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Agra

Province of Bangalore

Province of Bhopal

Province of Bombay

Province of Calcutta

Province of Calicut

Province of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar

Province of Delhi

Province of Gandhinagar

Province of Goa and Daman

Province of Guwahati

Province of Hyderabad

Province of Imphal

Province of Madras and Mylapore

Province of Madurai

Province of Nagpur

Province of Patna

Province of Pondicherry and Cuddalore

Province of Raipur

Province of Ranchi

Province of Shillong

Province of Thiruvananthapuram

Province of Verapoly

Province of Visakhapatnam

Syro-Malabar Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Eranakulam - Angamaly

Province of Changanassery

Province of Faridabad

Province of Kalyan

Province of Shamshabad

Province of Tellicherry

Province of Thrissur

Province of Ujjain

Archdiocese of Kottayam

Syro-Malankara Ecclesiastical Provinces

Province of Trivandrum

Province of Tiruvalla

Directly under the Holy See

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