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

Saints: 15 Saints, 12 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: 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