Chronology of Catholic Dioceses:India

See a list of abbreviations used in this list. See also our listing of current ecclesial jurisdictions.

For practical reasons, this list includes also those jurisdictions erected before the 1947 independence of India (and concomitant division of British India) in the territories of today's Bangladesh and Pakistan. But there are also separate chronologies for these countries.

Also for convenience, the jurisdictions including Nepal and Tibet have been included here.

Regarding Goa:

1514
Funchal (established by the Portuguese, see footnote) - Portugal
0072~
Calamina (according to legend the diocese of St. Thomas in India) - India
1533
Goa (detached from Funchal) - India
1558
Goa (AD) - India
1558
Cochin (detached from Goa) - India
1599
Angamalé [Catholics of all Rites] (Metr.) (detached from Cochin) - India
1600
Cranganore [Catholics of all Rites, until Latins were put under Quilon in 1640'ies] (Metr.) (new name, previously Angamalé) - India
1606
Madura (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Cochin) - India
1606
São Tomé of Meliapore (formed from preexistent diocese of Calamina, now detached from Cochin) - India

Between 1637 and 1888 there were several overlapping jurisdictions, established by either the Roman Congregation "Propaganda Fide", or by the Portuguese "Padroado", in India.

 

1637
Idalcan / Deccan / Bijapur (AV, erected by the "Propaganda Fide", detached from Goa) - India
1642
Fort Saint George / Madras (AP, erected by "Propaganda Fide", detached from the territory of São Tomé of Meliapore) - India
1659
Malabar (VA, detached from Cochin) - India
1669
Great Mogul (AV, new name, previously Idalcan / Deccan / Bijapur AV) - India
1704
Tibet (AP, detached from Great Mogul AV) - (Tibet) Nepal, China, etc.
1709
Verapoly (VA, new name, previously Malabar) - India
1769
Tibet (AP, suppressed, incorporated in Great Mogul AV) - (Tibet) Nepal, China, etc.
1773
Madura (abandoned) - India
1776
Karnatic mission / Pondicherry (Miss. "sui iuris", with territory detached from the abandoned Madura mission, reestablished by the "Propaganda Fide") - India
1784
Hindustan (Miss. "sui iuris", detached from Great Mogul AV) - India

 

1820
Bombay (AV, new name, previously Great Mogul AV) - India
1820
Tibet-Hindustan (AV, and new name, previously Hindustan) - India, China, Nepal, etc.
1832
Madras (AV) - India
1834
Bengal (AV, detached from São Tomé of Meliapore) - India
1834
Ceylon (AV, detached from Cochin) - Sri Lanka
1836
Madura and Coromandel Coast (AV, reestablishment of the extinct Madura mission, now detached from São Tomé of Meliapore) - India
1836
Pondicherry (AV, and new name, previously the Karnatic mission [Miss. "sui iuris"]) - India
1838
Cochin (suppressed, joined to Verapoly) - India
1838
Cranganore (suppressed, joined to Verapoly) - India
1845
Patna (AV, detached from Tibet-Hindustan) - India
1845
Quilon (AV, detached from Verapoly AV) - India
1846
Agra (AV, new name, previously Tibet-Hindustan) - India
1846
Lhasa (AV, detached from Tibet-Hindustan) - (Tibet) China

 

1850
Lhasa-Assam (AV, new name, previously Lhasa) - (Tibet, India) India, Bhutan, China
1850
Western Bengal (AV, new name, previously Bengal AV) - India
1850
Eastern Bengal (AV, detached from Bengal AV) - (India) Bangladesh
1850
Coimbatore (AV, detached from Madura and Coromandel Coast AV) - India
1850
Mysore (AV, detached from Madura and Coromandel Coast AV) - India
1850
Vizagapatnam (AV, detached from Madras AV) - India
1851
Hyderabad (AV, detached from Madras AV) - India
1853
Mangalore (AV, detached from Verapoly AV) - India
1853
Verapoly (AV) - India
1854
Poona (AV, detached from Bombay) - India
1858
Lhasa (AV, new name, previously Lhasa-Assam) - (Tibet) China
1870
Central Bengal (AP, detached from Western Bengal) - (India) India /Bangladesh

 

1880
Punjab (AV, detached from Agra) - (India) India, Pakistan
1886
East Indies (Patr.) - India
1886
Agra (Metr.) - India
1886
Allahabad (D, and new name, previously Patna AV) - India
1886
Bombay (Metr.) - India
1886
Calcutta (Metr., and new name, previously Western Bengal) - India
1886
Central Bengal - India
1886
Cochin (reestablished, detached from Verapoly) - India
1886
Coimbatore - India
1886
Damão (detached from Goa) - India
1886
Eastern Bengal - (India) Bangladesh
1886
Hyderabad - India
1886
Lahore (D, and new name, previously Punjab AV) - (India) Pakistan
1886
Madras (Metr.) - India
1886
Madurai (D, and new name, previously Madura and Coromandel Coast AV) - India
1886
Mangalore - India
1886
Pondicherry - India
1886
Mysore - India
1886
Poona - India
1886
Quilon - India
1886
Verapoly (Metr.) - India
1886
Vizagapatnam - India
1887
Dacca (new name, previously Eastern Bengal) - (India) Bangladesh
1887
Kafiristan and Kashmir (AP, detached from Lahore) - (India) Pakistan, small part of Afghanistan
1887
Kottayam [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Verapoly) - India
1887
Krishnagar (new name, previously Central Bengal) - India
1887
Nagpur (detached from Vizagapatnam) - India
1887
Pondicherry (Metr.) - India
1887
Trichinopoly (new name, previously Madurai) - India
1887
Trichur [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Verapoly) - India
1890
Rajputana (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Agra) - India
1891
Rajputana (AP) - India
1892
Bettiah (AP, detached from Allahabad) - India, Nepal
1896
Changanacherry [Syr.-Malab.] (AV, new name, previously Kottayam) - India
1896
Ernakulam [Syr.-Malab.] (AV, detached from Kottayam, and from Trichur) - India
1899
Assam (AP, detached from Krishnagar) - India
1899
Kumbakonam (detached from Pondicherry) - India

 

1910
Simla (Metr., detached from Agra, and from Lahore, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Agra) - India
1911
Kottayam [Syr.-Malab.] (AV, set up as a non-territorial diocese for the Suddhists, detached from Changanacherry [Syr.-Malab.] AV) - India
1913
Ajmer (D, and new name, previously Rajputana AP) - India
1917
Patna (AV, and new name, previously Bettiah) - India, Nepal
1919
Patna - India, Nepal
1923
Calicut (detached from Mangalore, from Mysore, and from Coimbatore) - India
1923
Changanacherry [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1923
Ernakulam [Syr.-Malab.] (Metr.) - India
1923
Kottayam [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1923
Trichur [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1923
Tuticorin (detached from Trichinopoly) - India
1924
Tatsienlu (AV, detached from Lhasa, AV) - Tibet (China)
1927
Chittagong (detached from Dacca) - (India) Bangladesh
1927
Dinajpur (D, detached from Krishnagar) - (India) Bangladesh
1927
Ranchi (detached from Calcutta) - India
1928
Bellary (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Madras, and from Hyderabad) - India
1928
Cuttack (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Vizagapatam) - India
1928
Goa e Damão (AD, united) - India
1928
Nellore (detached from Madras) - India
1929
Sikkim (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Calcutta, and from Tatsienlu) - China / India

 

1930
Kottar (detached from Quilon) - India
1930
Salem (detached from Kumbakonam, from Pondicherry, and from Mysore) - India
1930
Vijayapuram (detached from Verapoly) - India
1931
Kalimpong-Sikkim (AP, and new name, previously Sikkim) - (Sikkim) India
1932
Jubbalpore (AP, detached from Allahabad, and from Nagpur) - India
1932
Tiruvalla [Syr.-Malank.] - India
1932
Trivandrum [Syr.-Malank.] (Metr.) - India
1933
Bezwada (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Hyderabad) - India
1934
Ahmedabad (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Bombay) - India
1934
Shillong (D, and new name, previously Assam, AP) - India
1935
Indore (AP, detached from Ajmer, from Allahabad, and from Nagpur) - India
1936
Multan (AP, detached from Lahore) - (India) Pakistan
1937
Bezwada - India
1937
Cuttack - India
1937
Delhi and Simla (Metr., new name, previously Simla) - India
1937
Trivandrum [Lat.] (detached from Quilon) - India
1938
Madura (detached from Trichinopoly) - India
1939
Multan - (India) Pakistan

 

1940
Bangalore (detached from Mysore) - India
1940
Guntur (detached from Nellore) - India
1940
Jhansi (AP, detached from Allahabad) - India
1940
Lucknow (detached from Allahabad, and from Agra) - India
1946
Gorakhpur (AP, detached from Allahabad) - India
1949
Bellary - India
1949
Ahmedabad - India
1950
Jabalpur (AP, new name, previously Jubbalpore AP) - India
1950
Madurai (new name, previously Madura) - India
1950
Palai [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Kottayam [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1950
Tiruchirapalli (new name, previously Trichinopoly) - India
1950
Vijayawada (new name, previously Bezwada) - India
1950
Visakhapatnam (new name, previously Vizagapatam) - India
1951
Dibrugarh (detached from Shillong) - India
1951
Raigarh-Ambikapur (detached from Ranchi, and from Nagpur) - India
1951
Sambalpur (detached from Calcutta, from Nagpur, and from Ranchi) - India
1952
Alleppey (detached from Cochin) - India
1952
Haflong (AP, detached from Dacca) - India
1952
Indore - India
1952
Jalpaiguri (detached from Dinajpur) - India
1952
Jullundur (AP, detached from Lahore) - India
1952
Kashmir and Jammu (AP, detached from Rawalpindi, and from Lahore) - India
1952
Madras and Mylapore (united; and new name, Mylapore was previously São Tomé of Meliapore) - India
1952
Malda (AP, detached from Calcutta) - India
1952
Tanjore (detached from Mylapore) - India
1952
Vellore (detached from Madras) - India
1952
Warangal (detached from Hyderabad) - India
1953
Bangalore (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Pondicherry) - India
1953
Belgaum (detached from Goa e Damão, and from Poona) - India
1953
Hyderabad (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Madras andMylapore) - India
1953
Madurai (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bombay) - India
1953
Nagpur (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Provindce of Madras andMylapore) - India
1953
Pondicherry and Cuddalore (Metr., new name, previously Pondicherry Metr.) - India
1953
Ranchi (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Calcutta) - India
1953
Tellicherry [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Calicut) - India
1954
Jabalpur - India
1954
Jhansi - India
1955
Ajmer and Jaipur (new name, previously Ajmer) - India
1955
Amravati (detached from Nagpur) - India
1955
Ootacamund (detached from Mysore) - India
1956
Bhagalpur (AP, detached from Patna) - India
1956
Changanacherry [Syr.-Malab.] (Metr.) - India
1956
Kothamangalam [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Ernakulam [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1956
Meerut (detached from Agra) - India
1958
Benares-Gorakhpur (AP, new name, previously Gorakhpur AP) - India
1959
Delhi (Metr., new name, previously Delhi and Simla) - India
1959
Simla (detached from Delhi and Simla) - India

 

1962
Darjeeling (D, and new name, previously Kalimpong-Sikkim AP, also with territory from Calcutta) - India
1962
Dumka (D, and new name, previously Malda, also with territories detached from Calcutta) - India
1962
Jamshedpur (detached from Ranchi, and from Calcutta) - India
1963
Bhopal (Metr., detached from Indore, from Jabalpur, and from Ajmer-Jaipur) - India
1963
Chikmagalur (detached from Mysore) - India
1964
Raipur (AV, detached from Nagpur) - India
1964
Simla and Chandigarh (new name, previously Simla) - India
1964
Tezpur (detached from Shillong, and from Dibrugarh) - India
1965
Bhagalpur - India
1966
Baroda (detached from Bombay) - India
1967
Kurnool (detached from Nellore) - India
1968
Balasore (AP, detached from Calcutta) - India
1968
Chanda [Syr.-Malab.] (Ap.Ex., detached from Amravati, and from Nagpur) - India
1968
Jammu and Kashmir (AP, new name, previously Kashmir and Jammu AP) - India
1968
Satna [Syr.-Malab.] (Ap.Ex., detached from Jabalpur) - India
1968
Ujjain [Syr.-Malab.] (Ap.Ex., detached from Indore) - India
1969
Gauhati-Shillong (Metr. and new name, previously Shillong) - India
1969
Silchar (D, and new name, previously Haflong AP) - India
1970
Banaras (D, and new name, previously Benares-Gorakhpur AP) - India
1970
Shillong-Gauhati (Metr., new name, previously Gauhati-Shillong, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Calcutta) - India
1971
Daltonganj (detached from Ranchi) - India
1971
Jullundur - India
1971
Varanasi (new name, previously Banaras) - India
1972
Bijnor [Syr.-Malab.] (Ap.Ex., detached from Meerut) - India
1972
Jagdalpur [Syr.-Malab.] (Ap.Ex., detached from AV Raipur)- India
1973
Kohima-Imphal (detached from Dibrugarh) - India
1973
Mananthavady [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Tellicherry [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1973
Palayamkottai (detached from Madurai) - India
1973
Raipur - India
1973
Tura (detached from Shillong-Gauhati) - India
1974
Berhampur (detached from Cuttack) - India
1974
Cuttack-Bhubaneswar (Metr., and new name, previously Cuttack) - India
1974
Palghat [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Trichur [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1976
Cuddapah (detached from Nellore) - India
1976
Eluru (detached from Vijawada) - India
1976
Karwar (detached from Belgaum) - India
1976
Nalgonda (detached from Hyderabad, and from Warangal) - India
1977
Ambikapur (detached from Rajgarh-Ambikapur) - India
1977
Aurungabad (detached from Hyderabad, and from Amravati) - India
1977
Baruipur (detached from Calcutta) - India
1977
Bijnor [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1977
Chanda [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1977
Jagdalpur [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1977
Khandwa (detached from Indore) - India
1977
Kanjirapally [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Changanacherry, and from Palai) - India
1977
Raigarh (new name, previously Raigarh-Ambikapur) - India
1977
Rajkot [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Ahmedabad) - India
1977
Satna [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1977
Ujjain [Syr.-Malab.] - India
1978
Battery [Syr.-Malank.] (detached from Tiruvalla [Syr.-Malank.]) - India
1978
Irinjalakuda [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Trichur [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1978
Rajganj (detached from Dumka) - India
1979
Rourkela (detached from Sambalpur) - India

 

1980
Imphal (detached from Kohima-Imphal) - India
1980
Kohima (new name, previously Kohima-Imphal) - India
1980
Muzaffarpur (detached from Patna) - India
1983
Diphu (detached from Shillong-Gauhati, Silchar) - India
1983
Nepal (Mission "sui iuris", detached from Patna) - Nepal
1984
Gorakhpur [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Varanasi) - India
1984
Port Blair (detached from Ranchi) - India
1984
Udaipur (detached from Ajmer and Jaipur) - India
1985
Punalur (detached from Quilon) - India
1986
Jammu-Srinagar (D, and new name, previously Jammu and Kashmir AP) - India
1986
Thamarassery [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Tellicherry [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1987
Kottapuram (detached from Verapoly) - India
1987
Nashik (detached from Poona) - India
1987
Sivagangai (detached from Madurai) - India
1988
Kalyan [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Bombay) - India
1988
Khammam (detached from Warangal) - India
1988
Shimoga (detached from Bangalore, and from Chikmagalur) - India
1989
Balasore - India
1989
Bareilly (detached from Lucknow) - India
1992
Ernakulam-Angamaly (Major Archeparchy) [Syr.-Malab.] - (formerly Archeparchy, and new name, previously Ernakulam) - India
1992
Guwahati (detached from Shillong-Gauhati, from Tezpur, and from Tura) - India
1992
Shillong (Metr.) - (new name, previously Shillong-Gauhati) - India
1993
Gumla (detached from Ranchi) - India
1993
Simdega (detached from Ranchi) - India
1993
Srikakulam (detached from Visakhapatnam) - India
1995
Hazaribag (detached from Daltonganj) - India
1995
Guwahati (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Shillong) - India
1995
Imphal (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Shillong) - India
1995
Khunti (detached from Ranchi) - India
1995
Tellicherry [Syr.-Malab.] (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Ernakulam-Angamaly) - India
1995
Trichur [Syr.-Malab.] (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Ernakulam-Angamaly) - India
1996
Agartala (detached from Silchar) - India
1996
Aizawl (new name, previously Silchar) - India
1996
Marthandoum [Syr.-Malank.] (D, detached from Trivandrum [Syr.-Malank.]) - India
1996
Neyyattinkara (detached from Trivandrum) - India
1996
Thuckalay (Thakala) [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Changanacherry [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1997
Asansol (detached from Calcutta) - India
1997
Bagdogra (detached from Darjeeling) - India
1997
Dharmapuri (detached from Salem) - India
1997
Nepal (AP) - Nepal
1998
Bettiah (detached from Muzaffarpur) - India
1998
Kannur (detached from Calicut) - India
1998
Purnea (detached from Dumka) - India
1998
Vasai (detached from Bombay) - India
1999
Adilabad [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Chanda [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1999
Belthangady [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Tellicherry [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
1999
Gwalior (detached from Jhansi) - India
1999
Patna (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Ranchi) - India
2000
Bongaigaon (detached from Guwahati) - India
2001
Visakhapatnam (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Hyderabad) - India
2002
Chingleput (detached from Madras and Mylapore) - India
2002
Gandhinagar (Metr., detached from Ahmedabad, was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bombay) - India
2002
Idukki [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Kothamangalam [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
2002
Jhabua (detached from Indore and from Udaipur) - India
2002
Muvattupuzha [Syr.-Malank.] (detached from Trivandrum [Syr.-Malank.]) - India
2003
Dindigul (detached from Madurai (AD), and from Tiruchirapalli (D)) - India
2004
Trivandrum [Lat.] (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Verapoly) - India
2004
Raipur (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of Bhopal) - India
2005
Gulbarga (detached from Hyderabad, Bellary and Belgaum) - India
2005
Sindhudurg (detached from Poona) - India
2005
Jaipur (detached from Ajmer-Jaipur) - India
2005
Ajmer (new name, previously Ajmer-Jaipur) - India
2005
Buxar (detached from Patna) - India
2005
Itanagar (detached from Tezpur) - India
2005
Miao (detached from Dibrugarh) - India
2005
Kottayam [Syr.Malab.] (Metr., was part of the Metropolitan Province of ...) - India
2006
Jowai (detached from Shillong) - India
2006
Jashpur (detached from Raigarh) - India
2006
Nongstoin (detached from Shillong) - India
2006
Goa and Damão (Metr., previously AD not part of any Metropolitan Province) - India
2007
Mavelikara [Syr.-Malank.] (detached from Trivandrum [Syr.-Malank.]) - India
2007
Bhadravati [Syr.-Malab.] (detached from Mananthavady [Syr.-Malab.]) - India
2010
Mandya [Syr.-Malab.] (not detached from any Syr.-Malabar jurisdiction) - India
2010
Ramanaputhram [Syr.-Malab.] (not detached from any Syr.-Malabar jurisdiction) - India
2010
Puthur [Syr.-Malank.] (detached from Trivandrum [Syr.-Malank.]) - India
2010
Pathanamthitta [Syr.-Malank.] (detached from Trivandrum [Syr.-Malank.]) - India
2015
St John Chrysostom of Gurgaon [Syr.-Malank.] (ex nihil - outside traditional area for the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh ed Orissa, as well as Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and West Bengal) - India
2015
St Ephrem of Khadki [Syr.-Malank.] (ex nihil - outside traditional area for the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh. and Telangana, and parts of Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu) - India
2017
Parassala [Syr.-Malank.] (detached from Trivandrum [Syr.-Malank.]) - India
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