The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bagdogra is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Calcutta in northeastern India, yet it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in the city of Bagdogra, West Bengal.

History

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 55,543 Catholics (5.4% of 1,020,000 total) on 1,200 km² in 19 parishes and 55 missions with 64 priests (29 diocesan, 35 religious), 211 lay religious (46 brothers, 165 sisters) and 14 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

(all Latin Rite)

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