Diocese of

Buxar

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Area: 11,311 km²

Population: 27,805 Catholics (0.2% of 11,708,230 total) (2017)

Statistics: 16 parishes, 41 priests (15 diocesan, 26 religious), 138 lay religious (36 brothers, 102 sisters), 11 seminarians (2017)

Ecclesiastical Province: Patna

Neighbouring Dioceses: Allahabad (↙), Varanasi (←), Bettiah (↑), Patna (→), Daltonganj (↓)

Patron Saint: Our Lady of Perpetual Help

2005.12.12: Established as Diocese of Buxar / Buxaren(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Patna)

Bishop:

vacant

Bishops of Buxar (Roman Rite)

Bishop Sebastian Kallupura (66) (later Archbishop)
(2009.04.07 – 2018.06.29)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Patna (India)
Bishop emeritus of Buxar (India)

Bishop of Buxar (India) (2009.04.07 – 2018.06.29)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Patna (India) (2018.06.29 – ...)

Archbishop William D’Souza, S.J. (74)
(Apostolic Administrator 2007.10.07 – 2009.04.07)

Bishop William D’Souza, S.J. (74) (later Archbishop)
(2005.12.12 – 2007.10.01)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Patna (India)

Bishop of Buxar (India) (2005.12.12 – 2007.10.01)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Patna (India) (2007.10.01 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Buxar (India) (2007.10.07 – 2009.04.07)

as of 2020.03.23