Diocese of Bagdogra, India 🇮🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Bagdogra / Bagdaogran(us) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Calcutta

Neighbouring Dioceses: Purnea (↙), Nepal (←), Darjeeling (↑), Jalpaiguri (→), Raiganj (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Jesus the Good Shepherd

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1997.06.14: Established as Diocese of Bagdogra / Bagdaogran(us) (Latin) (from Diocese of Darjeeling and became suffragan of Calcutta)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.11.09 – ...):

Bishop Paul Simick (62)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Bagdogra (Roman Rite)

Bishop Paul Simick (62)
(2024.11.09 – ...)

Bishop of Bagdogra (India)

Born:	1963.08.07 (Gitdubling, India)
Ordained Priest:	1992.04.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.06.29

Priest of Darjeeling (India) (1992.04.09 – 2014.04.25)

Titular Bishop of Maturba (2014.04.25 – 2024.11.09)

Vicar Apostolic of Nepal (Nepal) (2014.04.25 – 2024.11.09)

Bishop of Bagdogra (India) (2024.11.09 – ...)

Bishop Vincent Aind (71) (later Archbishop)
(2015.04.07 – 2023.12.30)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ranchi (India)
General Secretary of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India

Give love to one another

Born:	1955.01.30 (Kalchini, India)
Ordained Priest:	1984.04.30
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.06.14

Priest of Jalpaiguri (India) (1984.04.30 – 2015.04.07)

Bishop of Bagdogra (India) (2015.04.07 – 2023.12.30)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Ranchi (India) (2023.12.30 – ...)

General Secretary of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (2025.02.02 – ...)

Archbishop Thomas D’Souza (75)
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.03.12 – 2015.04.07)

Bishop Thomas D’Souza (75) (later Archbishop)
(1997.06.14 – 2011.03.12)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Calcutta (India)

Unitas et amor

Born:	1950.08.26 (Adyapady, India)
Ordained Priest:	1977.04.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.01.25

Priest of Mangalore (India) (1977.04.16 – 1997.06.14)

Bishop of Bagdogra (India) (1997.06.14 – 2011.03.12)

Coadjutor Archbishop of Calcutta (India) (2011.03.12 – 2012.02.23)

Apostolic Administrator of Bagdogra (India) (2011.03.12 – 2015.04.07)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Calcutta (India) (2012.02.23 – 2025.09.20)

Apostolic Administrator of Krishnagar (India) (2019.04.17 – 2022.04.30)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Bagdogra, West Bengal

Purnea (↙), Nepal (←), Darjeeling (↑), Jalpaiguri (→), Raiganj (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 1,110 km²

Population: 60,200 Catholics (5.0% of 1,202,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 20 parishes

Personnel: 81 priests (41 diocesan, 40 religious), 197 religious (44 brothers, 153 sisters), 17 seminarians