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Continent: South and East Asia
Rite: Roman (Latin)
Type: Diocese
Area: 7,823 km²
Population: 240,118 Catholics (4.3% of 5,600,110 total) (2018)
Statistics: 97 parishes, 266 priests (174 diocesan, 92 religious), 902 lay religious (232 brothers, 670 sisters), 16 seminarians (2018)
Ecclesiastical Province: Pondicherry and Cuddalore
Neighbouring Dioceses: Tanjore (↙), Tiruchirapalli (←), Salem (↖), Pondicherry and Cuddalore (↗)
Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Patron Saint: Our Lady of Assumption, Saint John de Britto
Present Prelates
Ordinaries
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as of 2021.02.12
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