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Patron Saints: Saint Thomas, Saint Francis Xavier, Our Lady of Assumption

Saints: 15 Saints, 13 Blesseds

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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: 23,424,000 Catholics (1.7% of 1,395,187,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 11,597 parishes, 14,825 mission stations (600 with resident priest, 14,225 without resident priest), 1,982 other centres

Clergy: 260 bishops (161 diocesan, 99 titular), 34,079 priests (17,258 diocesan, 16,821 religious), 53 permanent deacons (22 diocesan, 31 religious)

Non-Clergy: 102,081 religious (3,435 brothers, 98,646 sisters), 481 members of secular institutes (30 brothers, 451 sisters), 11,401 major seminarians, 12,221 missionaries, 122,146 catechists