Bible Dictionaries
India
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
Name applied in general to nearly all the territory of southern Asia, whose total area exceeds 1,800,000 square miles. Tradition claims that the body of Saint Thomas the Apostle was buried at Mylapore after his efforts to Christianize the Hindus, but nothing certain is known of early missionary work in India until the arrival of the Franciscans from Portugal, c.1500,who found the natives converted to Nestorianism. Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, and Augustinians were the first missionaries in India. Vicariates Apostolic were established, c.1637,and administered by European missionaries of different orders and nationalities, assisted by native secular clergy. The hierarchy was established, 1886.
Archdioceses, past and present, include
- Agra
- Bangalore
- Bhopal
- Bombay
- Calcutta
- Changanacherry
- Cranganore
- Cuttack-Bhubaneswar
- Delhi
- Ernakulam-Angamaly
- Gandhinagar
- Goa
- Guwahati
- Hyderabad
- Imphal
- Madras and Mylapore
- Madurai
- Nagpur
- Patna
- Pondicherry and Cuddalore
- Raipur
- Ranchi
- Shillong
- Tellicherry
- Trichur
- Trivandrum
- Verapoly
- Visakhapatnam
Dioceses, past and present, include:
- Adilabad
- Agartala
- Ahmedabad
- Aizawl
- Ajmir
- Allahabad
- Alleppey
- Ambikapur
- Amravati
- Asansol
- Aurangabad
- Bagdogra
- Balasore
- Bareilly
- Baroda
- Baruipur
- Bathery
- Belgaum
- Bellary
- Belthangady
- Berhampur
- Bettiah
- Bhagalpur
- Bijnor
- Bongaigaon
- Buxar
- Calicut
- Chanda (Syro-Malabarese)
- Chikmagalur
- Chinglepet
- Cochin
- Coimbatore
- Cuddapah
- Daltonganj
- Damão
- Darjeeling
- Dharmapuri
- Dibrugarh
- Dinajpur
- Dindigul
- Diphu
- Dumka
- Eluru
- Gorakhpur
- Gulbarga, India
- Gumla
- Guntur
- Gwalior
- Hazaribag
- Idukki (Syro-Malabarese)
- Indore
- Itanagar
- Irinjalakuda
- Jabalpur
- Jagdalpur (Syro-Malabarese)
- Jalpaiguri
- Jammu-Srinagar
- Jamshedpur
- Jashpur
- Jhabua
- Jhansi
- Jowai
- Jullundur
- Kalyan
- Kanjirapally
- Kannur
- Karwar
- Khammam
- Khandwa
- Khunti
- Kohima
- Kothamangalam
- Kottapuram
- Kottar
- Kottayam
- Krishnagar
- Kumbakonam
- Kurnool
- Lucknow
- Mananthavady
- Mangalore
- Marthandom
- Meerut
- Miao
- Muvattupuzha
- Muzaffarpur
- Mysore
- Nalgonda
- Nashik
- Nellore
- Neyyattinkara
- Nongstoin
- Ootacamund
- Palai (Syro-Malabarese)
- Palayamkottai
- Palghat
- Poona
- Port Blair
- Punalur
- Purnea
- Quilon
- Raiganj
- Raigarh
- Rajkot (Syro-Malabarese)
- Rourkela
- Sagar (Syro-Malabarese)
- Salem
- Sambalpur
- São Tomé of Meliapore
- Satna (Syro-Malabarese)
- Shimoga
- Simdega
- Simla and Chandigarh
- Sindhudurg
- Sivagangai
- Srikakulam
- Tanjore
- Tezpur
- Thamarasserry
- Thuckalay
- Tiruchirapalli
- Tiruvalla
- Tura
- Tuticorin
- Udaipur
- Ujjain (Syro-Malabarese)
- Varanasi
- Vasai
- Vellore
- Vijayapuram
- Vijayawada
- Warangal
See also:
- Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
- Catholic Bishops' Conference of India
- World Fact Book
- The Indian Catholic
- patron saints index: archdiocese of Bombay, India
- patron saints index: archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, India
- patron saints index: diocese of Agra, India
- patron saints index: Bombay, India
- patron saints index: Goa, India
- patron saints index: India
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Entry for 'India'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/i/india.html. 1910.