Diocese of Rourkela, India 🇮🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Rourkela / Rurkelaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Cuttack–Bhubaneswar

Neighbouring Dioceses: Sambalpur (↙), Raigarh (←), Simdega (↑), Jamshedpur (↗), Balasore (→)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Our Lady of Holy Rosary

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1979.07.04: Established as Diocese of Rourkela / Rurkelaën(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Sambalpur and became suffragan of Cuttack–Bhubaneswar)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2013.07.26 – ...):

Bishop Kishore Kumar Kujur (62)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Rourkela (Roman Rite)

Bishop Kishore Kumar Kujur (62)
(2013.07.26 – ...)

Bishop of Rourkela (India)

The mystery of faith

Born:	1964.01.06 (Gaibira, India)
Ordained Priest:	1993.02.07
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.09.29

Priest of Sambalpur (India) (1993.02.07 – 2013.07.26)

Bishop of Rourkela (India) (2013.07.26 – ...)

Bishop John Barwa, S.V.D. (70) (later Archbishop)
(2009.04.02 – 2011.02.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuttack–Bhubaneswar (India)

Give me a heart to love

Born:	1955.06.01 (Gaibira, India)
Ordained Priest:	1985.04.14
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.04.19

Coadjutor Bishop of Rourkela (India) (2006.02.04 – 2009.04.02)

Bishop of Rourkela (India) (2009.04.02 – 2011.02.11)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuttack–Bhubaneswar (India) (2011.02.11 – ...)

Bishop Alphonse Bilung, S.V.D.
(1979.07.04 – 2009.04.02)

Christus pax

Born:	1933.06.05 (Kusumdegi, India)
Ordained Priest:	1961.10.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1979.11.03
Died:	2022.11.11 (Rourkela, India † 89)

Bishop of Rourkela (India) (1979.07.04 – 2009.04.02)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop John Barwa, S.V.D. (70) (later Archbishop) (2006.02.04 – 2009.04.02)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rourkela, Odisha
Former Cathedral: Former Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Rourkela, Odisha

Sambalpur (↙), Raigarh (←), Simdega (↑), Jamshedpur (↗), Balasore (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 9,675 km²

Population: 278,919 Catholics (12.5% of 2,233,110 total)

Pastoral Centres: 44 parishes

Personnel: 188 priests (83 diocesan, 105 religious), 745 religious (267 brothers, 478 sisters), 42 seminarians