Diocese of Lucknow, India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Lucknow / Lucknoven(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Agra

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Joseph, Saint Francis of Assisi

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1940.01.12: Established as Diocese of Lucknow / Lucknoven(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Agra and Diocese of Allahabad and became suffragan of Agra)
1989.01.19: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Bareilly

Present Prelates

Bishop (2007.11.08 – ...):

Bishop Gerald John Mathias (71)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Lucknow (Roman Rite)

Bishop Gerald John Mathias (71)
(2007.11.08 – ...)

Bishop of Lucknow (India)

Towards new society

Born:	1953.09.20 (Kallianpur, India)
Ordained Priest:	1979.04.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.04.09

Priest of Lucknow (India) (1979.04.22 – 1999.12.22)

Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh (India) (1999.12.22 – 2007.11.08)

Bishop of Lucknow (India) (2007.11.08 – ...)

Bishop Albert D’Souza (79) (later Archbishop)
(1992.11.21 – 2007.02.16)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Agra (India)

Your kingdom come

Born:	1945.08.04 (Moodubelle, India)
Ordained Priest:	1974.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1993.02.07

Bishop of Lucknow (India) (1992.11.21 – 2007.02.16)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Agra (India) (2007.02.16 – 2020.11.12)

General Secretary of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2012.02 – 2016.03)

Bishop Alan Basil de Lastic (later Archbishop)
(1984.07.02 – 1990.11.19)

Born:	1929.09.24 (Myanmar)
Ordained Priest:	1958.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1979.05.27
Died:	2000.06.20 († 70)

Titular Bishop of Cissa (1979.04.09 – 1984.07.02)

Auxiliary Bishop of Calcutta (India) (1979.04.09 – 1984.07.02)

Bishop of Lucknow (India) (1984.07.02 – 1990.11.19)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Delhi (India) (1990.11.19 – 2000.06.20)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (1998 – 2000.06.20)

Bishop Cecil DeSa (later Archbishop)
(1971.06.05 – 1983.11.11)

Manete in Christo

Born:	1922.11.22 (India)
Ordained Priest:	1948.09.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1971.10.16
Died:	2006.10.27 († 83)

Bishop of Lucknow (India) (1971.06.05 – 1983.11.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Agra (India) (1983.11.11 – 1998.04.16)

Bishop Albert Conrad de Vito, O.F.M. Cap.
(1946.12.12 – 1970.11.16)

Born:	1904.03.21
Ordained Priest:	1927.06.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1947.02.16
Died:	1970.11.16 († 66)

Bishop of Lucknow (India) (1946.12.12 – 1970.11.16)

Bishop Joseph Angel Poli, O.F.M. Cap. (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 1940 – 1946)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Agra (←), Bareilly (↖), Nepal (↗), Gorakhpur (→), Allahabad (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 45,125 km²

Population: 8,210 Catholics (0.0% of 23,302,910 total)

Pastoral Centres: 41 parishes

Personnel: 117 priests (82 diocesan, 35 religious), 551 religious (49 brothers, 502 sisters), 17 seminarians

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