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Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Baruipur / Baruipuren(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Calcutta

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Immaculate Heart of Mary

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1977.05.30: Established as Diocese of Baruipur / Baruipuren(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Calcutta and became suffragan of Calcutta)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.05.04 – ...):

Bishop Shyamal Bose (64)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Baruipur (Roman Rite)

Bishop Shyamal Bose (64)
(2020.05.04 – ...)

Bishop of Baruipur (India)

Born:	1961.03.24 (Gosaba, India)
Ordained Priest:	1991.05.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2019.06.24

Priest of Baruipur (India) (1991.05.05 – 2019.05.17)

Coadjutor Bishop of Baruipur (India) (2019.05.17 – 2020.05.04)

Bishop of Baruipur (India) (2020.05.04 – ...)

Bishop Salvadore Lobo (80)
(1997.10.16 – 2020.05.04)

Bishop emeritus of Baruipur (India)

Make me a channel of your peace

Born:	1945.04.30 (Mangalore, India)
Ordained Priest:	1973.03.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.01.29

Priest of Calcutta (India) (1973.03.19 – 1997.10.16)

Bishop of Baruipur (India) (1997.10.16 – 2020.05.04)

Apostolic Administrator of Asansol (India) (2020.05.04 – 2022.05.04)

Bishop Linus Nirmal Gomes, S.J.
(1977.05.30 – 1995.10.31)

Do whatever he tells you

Born:	1921.09.07 (Boro Golla, India)
Ordained Priest:	1954.11.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1977.11.19
Died:	2021.02.27 (Kolkata, India † 99)

Bishop of Baruipur (India) (1977.05.30 – 1995.10.31)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Shyamal Bose (64) (2019.05.17 – 2020.05.04)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Teresa of Calcutta, Baruipur, West Bengal

Calcutta (↖), Krishnagar (↑), Khulna (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 10,568 km²

Population: 63,132 Catholics (0.7% of 9,684,190 total)

Pastoral Centres: 23 parishes, 32 missions

Personnel: 73 priests (45 diocesan, 28 religious), 155 religious (41 brothers, 114 sisters), 11 seminarians

Diocese of

Baruipur