Diocese of Diphu, India 🇮🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Diphu / Diphuen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Guwahati

Neighbouring Dioceses: Jowai (↙), Tezpur (↖), Kohima (→), Imphal (↘), Aizawl (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Christ the Risen Lord

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1983.12.05: Established as Diocese of Diphu / Diphuen(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shillong–Gauhati and Diocese of Silchar and became suffragan of Shillong–Gauhati)
1995.07.10: Became suffragan of Guwahati

Present Prelates

Bishop (2013.07.26 – ...):

Bishop Paul Mattekatt (64)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Diphu (Roman Rite)

Bishop Paul Mattekatt (64)
(2013.07.26 – ...)

Bishop of Diphu (India)

Ut omnes unum sint

Born:	1961.06.01 (Thuravoor, India)
Ordained Priest:	1988.12.31
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.10.06

Priest of Diphu (India) (1988.12.31 – 2013.07.26)

Bishop of Diphu (India) (2013.07.26 – ...)

Bishop John Moolachira (74) (later Archbishop)
(2007.02.14 – 2011.04.09)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Guwahati (India)

Thy kingdom come

Born:	1951.12.14 (Puthusserykadavu, India)
Ordained Priest:	1978.10.23
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.04.15

Priest of Tezpur (India) (1978.10.23 – 2007.02.14)

Bishop of Diphu (India) (2007.02.14 – 2011.04.09)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Guwahati (India) (2011.04.09 – 2012.01.18)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Guwahati (India) (2012.01.18 – ...)

Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil (78)
(Apostolic Administrator 2006.03.12 – 2007.02.14)

Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil (78)
(1994.06.10 – 2005.12.07)

Bishop emeritus of Itanagar (India)

He must increase and I must decrease

Born:	1948.01.18 (Kothamangalam, India)
Ordained Priest:	1975.02.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1994.09.08

Bishop of Diphu (India) (1994.06.10 – 2005.12.07)

Bishop of Itanagar (India) (2005.12.07 – 2023.06.29)

Apostolic Administrator of Diphu (India) (2006.03.12 – 2007.02.14)

Bishop Mathai Kochuparampil, S.D.B.
(1983.12.05 – 1992.03.04)

Born:	1939.05.28 (Kanjirapally, India)
Ordained Priest:	1969.12.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1984.01.06
Died:	1992.03.04 († 52)

Bishop of Diphu (India) (1983.12.05 – 1992.03.04)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Risen Christ, Diphu, Assam

Jowai (↙), Tezpur (↖), Kohima (→), Imphal (↘), Aizawl (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 15,222 km²

Population: 70,386 Catholics (5.6% of 1,251,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 30 parishes, 9 missions

Personnel: 83 priests (29 diocesan, 54 religious), 273 religious (60 brothers, 213 sisters), 18 seminarians