Diocese of Ahmedabad
The Diocese of Ahmedabad is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Indian. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, yet depends on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its cathedral is Mount Carmel Cathedral, in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, western India.
Statistics
, it pastorally served 71,800 Catholics on 14,791 km² in 45 parishes and 2 missions with 164 priests, 455 lay religious and 11 seminarians.History
- Established in 1934 as Mission sui iuris of Ahmedabad from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bombay
- Elevated on 5 May 1949 as Diocese of Ahmedabad / Ahmedabadensis
- Lost territory on 26 February 1977 to establish the Diocese of Rajkot
- Lost territory on 11 October 2002 to establish the Archdiocese of Gandhinagar, which became its Metropolitan.
Prelates
;Ecclesiastical superior of Ahmedabad- Fr. Joaquin Vilallonga, SJ
- Edwin Pinto, Society of Jesus, died 1978
- Charles Gomes, S.J., died 2002
- Stanislaus Fernandes, S.J., next Metropolitan Archbishop of Gandhinagar, Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Diocese of Baroda
- Thomas Ignatius MacWan, next Metropolitan Archbishop of above Gandhinagar
- Athanasius Rethna Swamy Swamiadian.