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Also known as: Indien (Deutsch), l’Inde (français), India (español, Italiano, latine), Indie (polski), Índia (Português), 印度 (正體中文), インド (日本語)
Roman Rite (133): Agartala, Agra, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Ajmer, Allahabad, Alleppey, Ambikapur, Amravati, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bagdogra, Balasore, Bangalore, Bareilly, Baroda, Baruipur, Belgaum, Bellary, Berhampur, Bettiah, Bhagalpur, Bhopal, Bombay, Bongaigaon, Buxar, Calcutta, Calicut, Chikmagalur, Chingleput, Cochin, Coimbatore, Cuddapah, Cuttack–Bhubaneswar, Daltonganj, Darjeeling, Delhi, Dharmapuri, Dibrugarh, Dindigul, Diphu, Dumka, East Indies, Eluru, Gandhinagar, Goa and Daman–Cranganor, Gulbarga, Gumla, Guntur, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hazaribag, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Itanagar, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jalpaiguri, Jammu–Srinagar, Jamshedpur, Jashpur, Jhabua, Jhansi, Jowai, Kannur, Karwar, Khammam, Khandwa, Khunti, Kohima, Kottapuram, Kottar, Krishnagar, Kumbakonam, Kurnool, Kuzhithurai, Lucknow, Madras and Mylapore, Madurai, Mangalore, Meerut, Miao, Muzaffarpur, Mysore, Nagpur, Nalgonda, Nashik, Nellore, Neyyattinkara, Nongstoin, Ootacamund, Palayamkottai, Patna, Pondicherry and Cuddalore, Poona, Port Blair, Punalur, Purnea, Quilon, Raiganj, Raigarh, Raipur, Ranchi, Rayagada, Rourkela, Salem, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimoga, Simdega, Simla and Chandigarh, Sindhudurg, Sivagangai, Srikakulam, Sultanpet, Tanjore, Tezpur, Tiruchirapalli, Trivandrum, Tura, Tuticorin, Udaipur, Udupi, Varanasi, Vasai, Vellore, Verapoly, Vijayapuram, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Warangal
Syro-Malabar Church (31): Adilabad, Belthangady, Bhadravathi, Bijnor, Chanda, Changanacherry, Ernakulam–Angamaly, Faridabad, Gorakhpur, Hosur, Idukki, Irinjalakuda, Jagdalpur, Kalyan, Kanjirapally, Kothamangalam, Kottayam, Mananthavady, Mandya, Palai, Palghat, Rajkot, Ramanathapuram, Sagar, Satna, Shamshabad, Tellicherry, Thamarasserry, Thuckalay, Trichur, Ujjain
Syro-Malankar Church (11): Bathery, Marthandam, Mavelikkara, Moovatupuzha, Parassala, Pathanamthitta, Puthur, Saint Ephrem of Khadki, Saint John Chrysostom of Gurgaon, Tiruvalla, Trivandrum
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Apostolic Nunciature: India
Conference of Bishops: Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (C.C.B.I.)
Conference of Bishops: Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (C.B.C.I.)
Major Archiepiscopal Synod: Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church
Major Archiepiscopal Synod: Synod of the Syro-Malankarese Church
International Meeting of Bishops’ Conferences: Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (F.A.B.C.)
George Alencherry (78)
Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (70)
Oswald Gracias (78)
Anthony Poola (62)
Patron Saints: Saint Thomas, Saint Francis Xavier, Our Lady of Assumption
Saints: 15 Saints, 12 Blesseds
Continent: South and East Asia
Capital: New Delhi
Area: 2,973,193 km²
Population: 1,281,935,911
Neighbouring Countries: ↖ Pakistan , ↑ China
, ↗ Nepal
, ↗ Bhutan
, → Myanmar
, → Bangladesh
, ↘ Sri Lanka
, ↓ Maldives
Religions: Hindu 79.8%, Muslim 14.2%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.7%, other and unspecified 2%
Languages: Hindi 43.6%, Bengali 8%, Marathi 6.9%, Telugu 6.7%, Tamil 5.7%, Gujarati 4.6%, Urdu 4.2%, Kannada 3.6%, Odia 3.1%, Malayalam 2.9%, Punjabi 2.7%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.1%, other 5.6%
Ethnic Groups: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3%
Motto: Satyameva Jayate (Sanskrit) (Truth alone triumphs)
Area: 3,287,263 km²
Catholic Population: 22,940,000 Catholics (1.7% of 1,367,173,000 total)
Pastoral Centres: 11,317 parishes, 17,078 mission stations (515 with resident priest, 16,563 without resident priest), 2,201 other centres
Clergy: 247 bishops (153 diocesan, 94 titular), 33,237 priests (16,938 diocesan, 16,299 religious), 50 permanent deacons (19 diocesan, 31 religious)
Non-Clergy: 102,633 religious (3,467 brothers, 99,166 sisters), 486 members of secular institutes (34 brothers, 452 sisters), 12,988 major seminarians, 12,289 missionaries, 145,515 catechists
Last updated on 2023.11.30
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