Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi

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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Delhi is a Latin Church Metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in northern India. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is Sacred Heart Cathedral, in the national capital city of New Delhi.

History

Pope John Paul II made two papal visits, in February 1986 and November 1999.

Statistics

, the diocese served 115,300 Catholics (0.4% of the total population of 26,810,000) in 15420 km2, with 60 parishes and 4 missions. Personnel consisted of 301 priests (130 diocesan, 171 religious), 1,006 religious (391 brothers, 615 sisters) and 25 seminarians.

Ordinaries

(all Latin Church)

Ecclesiastical province

Delhi's ecclesiastical province comprises the Metropolitan's own archdiocese and the following suffragan dioceses:

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