Diocese of Jalpaiguri, India 🇮🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Jalpaiguri / Ialpaigurien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Calcutta

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Chris the King, Our Lady of the Rosary, Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1952.01.17: Established as Diocese of Jalpaiguri / Ialpaigurien(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Dinajpur and became suffragan of Calcutta)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.02.08 – ...):

Bishop Fabian Toppo (64)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Jalpaiguri (Roman Rite)

Bishop Fabian Toppo (64)
(2025.02.08 – ...)

Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India)

Born:	1960.12.21 (Darupisa, India)
Ordained Priest:	1994.12.03
Consecrated Bishop:	2025.05.01

Priest of Jalpaiguri (India) (1994.12.03 – 2025.02.08)

Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India) (2025.02.08 – ...)

Bishop Clement Tirkey (78)
(2006.01.31 – 2025.02.08)

Bishop emeritus of Jalpaiguri (India)

Collaborator of God with joy

Born:	1947.09.12 (Ranput, India)
Ordained Priest:	1978.03.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.04.23

Priest of Bagdogra (India) (1978.03.21 – 2006.01.31)

Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India) (2006.01.31 – 2025.02.08)

Bishop James Anthony Toppo
(1971.04.24 – 2004.05.04)

Born:	1930.05.03 (India)
Ordained Priest:	1960.08.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1971.10.17
Died:	2004.05.04 († 74)

Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India) (1971.04.24 – 2004.05.04)

Bishop Francis Ekka
(1967.11.29 – 1971.04.24)

Born:	1909.05.25 (India)
Ordained Priest:	1937.11.14
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.03.30
Died:	1984.03.15 († 74)

Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India) (1967.11.29 – 1971.04.24)

Bishop of Raigarh–Ambikapur (India) (1971.04.24 – 1977.11.10)

Bishop of Raigarh (India) (1977.11.10 – 1984.03.15)

Bishop Amerigo Galbiati, P.I.M.E.
(1952.03.20 – 1967.03.22)

Born:	1889.11.03
Ordained Priest:	1913.07.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1952.07.13
Died:	1979.11.24 († 90)

Bishop of Jalpaiguri (India) (1952.03.20 – 1967.03.22)

Titular Bishop of Sereddeli (1967.03.22 – 1979.11.24)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Christ Redeemer Cathedral, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal

Raiganj (↙), Bagdogra (←), Darjeeling (↗), Bongaigaon (→), Dinajpur (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 9,632 km²

Population: 141,758 Catholics (2.1% of 6,773,993 total)

Pastoral Centres: 30 parishes, 329 missions

Personnel: 109 priests (72 diocesan, 37 religious), 366 religious (76 brothers, 290 sisters), 21 seminarians