Diocese of Bagdogra

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bagdogra is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Calcutta in northeastern India, yet it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd in the city of Bagdogra, West Bengal.

History

Established on 14 June 1997 as Diocese of Bagdogra, on territory split off from the Diocese of Darjeeling.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 55,543 Catholics on 1,200 km² in 19 parishes and 55 missions with 64 priests, 211 lay religious and 14 seminarians.

Episcopal ordinaries

;Suffragan Bishops of Bagdogra

Thomas D'Souza, next Coadjutor Archbishop of Calcutta, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Calcutta
Apostolic Administrator Thomas D’Souza
Vincent Aind, succeeding as Metropolitan Archbishop of Ranchi