Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam is an archdiocese located in the city of Visakhapatnam in India.

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History

16 March 1845: Established as the Apostolic Pro-Vicariate of Vizagapatam from the Apostolic Vicariate of Madras
3 April 1850: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Vizagapatam
1 September 1886: Promoted as Diocese of Vizagapatam
21 October 1950: Renamed as Diocese of Visakhapatnam
16 October 2001: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam

Claretian Missionary Fathers entered the diocese in the year 1888. In 1845, Rome entrusted a vast area of Eastern and Central India to the MSFS, who set their headquarters in Visakhapatnam. The first group of MSFS landed on the East coast of India on 8 September 1845. The order of Friars Minor Capuchins. A novitiate was opened in India in 1922 thus planting the order in the Indian soil.

Bishops

Pro-Vicars Apostolic

Fr. Jacques Henri Gailhot,
Fr. Theophile Sebastian Neyret, M.S.F.S. ; continued as Vicar Apostolic

Vicars Apostolic

Bishop Theophile Sebastian Neyret, M.S.F.S.
Bishop Jean Marie Tissot, M.S.F.S. ; continued as the first bishop

Bishops of Visakhapatnam (Vizagapatam until 1950)

Bishop Jean Marie Tissot, M.S.F.S.
Bishop Jean-Marie Clerc, M.S.F.S.
Bishop Pierre Rossillon, M.S.F.S.
Bishop Joseph-Alphonse Baud, M.S.F.S.
Bishop Ignatius Gopu, M.S.F.S.
Bishop Kagithapu Mariadas, M.S.F.S. ; continued as Archbishop

Metropolitan Archbishops of Visakhapatnam

Archbishop Kagithapu Mariadas, M.S.F.S.
Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu
Archbishop Udumala Bala Showreddy