Diocese of Aurangabad, India 🇮🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Aurangabad / Aurangabaden(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Nagpur

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Websites:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Gonçalo Garcia, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1977.12.17: Established as Diocese of Aurangabad / Aurangabaden(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Hyderabad and Diocese of Amravati and became suffragan of Nagpur)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.02.17 – ...):

Bishop Bernard Lancy Pinto (62)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Aurangabad (Roman Rite)

Bishop Bernard Lancy Pinto (62)
(2024.02.17 – ...)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India)

Born:	1963.08.20 (Vikroli, India)
Ordained Priest:	1997.04.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2024.04.06

Priest of Bombay (India) (1997.04.29 – 2023.12.30)

Coadjutor Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (2023.12.30 – 2024.02.17)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (2024.02.17 – ...)

Bishop Ambrose Rebello (76)
(2015.05.13 – 2024.02.17)

Bishop emeritus of Aurangabad (India)

In the service of the Gospel

Born:	1949.02.17 (Nirmal, India)
Ordained Priest:	1979.04.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.08.28

Priest of Aurangabad (India) (1979.04.22 – 2015.05.13)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (2015.05.13 – 2024.02.17)

Bishop Edwin Colaço
(2006.10.20 – 2015.05.13)

Servant of the Lord

Born:	1937.10.02 (Uttan, India)
Ordained Priest:	1964.12.02
Consecrated Bishop:	1995.07.30
Died:	2025.09.22 (India † 87)

Priest of Bombay (India) (1964.12.02 – 1995.04.01)

Bishop of Amravati (India) (1995.04.01 – 2006.10.20)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (2006.10.20 – 2015.05.13)

Bishop Sylvester Monteiro
(1999.02.09 – 2005.08.14)

Born:	1933.11.26 (Raichur, India)
Ordained Priest:	1960.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1994.03.10
Died:	2005.08.14 († 71)

Titular Bishop of Scampa (1993.12.06 – 1999.02.09)

Auxiliary Bishop of Nagpur (India) (1993.12.06 – 1999.02.09)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (1999.02.09 – 2005.08.14)

Bishop Ignatius D’Cunha
(1989.02.06 – 1998.01.20)

Born:	1924.02.01 (Vasai, India)
Ordained Priest:	1955.03.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1989.04.03
Died:	2007.10.11 († 83)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (1989.02.06 – 1998.01.20)

Bishop Dominic Joseph Abreo
(1977.12.17 – 1987.05.01)

Born:	1923.07.03 (Manickpur, India)
Ordained Priest:	1954.12.05
Consecrated Bishop:	1978.04.09
Died:	1987.05.01 († 63)

Bishop of Aurangabad (India) (1977.12.17 – 1987.05.01)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop-elect Bernard Lancy Pinto (62) (2023.12.30 – 2024.02.17)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, Aurangabad, Mahārāshtra

Poona (↙), Nashik (←), Amravati (↗), Adilabad (→), Hyderabad (↘), Gulbarga (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 64,590 km²

Population: 14,345 Catholics (0.1% of 18,919,190 total)

Pastoral Centres: 28 parishes

Personnel: 74 priests (28 diocesan, 46 religious), 195 religious (47 brothers, 148 sisters), 11 seminarians