Diocese of Baroda, India

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Name: Baroda / Baroden(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Gandhinagar

Patron Saint: Our Lady of the Rosary, Saint Francis Xavier

1966.09.29: Established as Diocese of Baroda / Baroden(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bombay and became suffragan of Bombay)
2002.10.11: Became suffragan of Gandhinagar

Bishop (2022.12.31 – ...):

Bishop Sebastião Mascarenhas, S.F.X. (65)

Bishops of Baroda (Roman Rite)

Bishop Sebastião Mascarenhas, S.F.X. (65)
(2022.12.31 – ...)

Bishop of Baroda (India)

Bishop of Baroda (India) (2022.12.31 – ...)

Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes, S.J. (85)
(Apostolic Administrator 2016.05.23 – 2022.12.31)

Bishop Godfrey de Rozario, S.J. (78)
(1997.08.29 – 2021.12.18)

Bishop emeritus of Baroda (India)

Bishop of Baroda (India) (1997.08.29 – 2021.12.18)

Bishop Francis Leo Braganza, S.J.
(1987.04.27 – 1997.08.29)

Bishop of Baroda (India) (1987.04.27 – 1997.08.29)

Bishop Ignatius Salvador D’Souza
(1966.09.29 – 1986.01.19)

Bishop of Baroda (India) (1966.09.29 – 1986.01.19)

Rajkot (←), Ahmedabad (↖), Gandhinagar (↑), Udaipur (↑), Jhabua (→), Nashik (↓), Vasai (↓)

Area: 40,365 km²

Population: 97,980 Catholics (0.4% of 25,252,200 total)

Pastoral Centres: 47 parishes, 9 missions

Personnel: 169 priests (47 diocesan, 122 religious), 494 religious (136 brothers, 358 sisters), 7 seminarians