Catholic Church

Also known as: Indien (Deutsch), India (español, Italiano, latine), l’Inde (français), Indie (polski), Índia (Português), 印度 (正體中文), インド (日本語)

Continent: South and East Asia

Capital: New Delhi

Area: 2,973,193 km²

Population: 1,281,935,911

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

Saints: 15 Saints, 12 Blesseds

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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)

Neighbouring Countries: ↖ Pakistan , ↑ China , ↗ Nepal , ↗ Bhutan , → Myanmar , → Bangladesh , ↘ Sri Lanka , ↓ Maldives

Jurisdictions (175): Titular Patriarchates (1), Major Archdioceses (2), Metr. Archdioceses (28), Dioceses (144)

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

Cardinals (5 electors/6 total): Alencherry (78), do Rosário Ferrão (70), Gracias (78), Poola (61), Thottunkal (63), Toppo (83) | All Cardinals

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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.)