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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sindhudurg (''Dioecesis Sindhudurgiensis'') in India was created on July 5, 2005, when it was split off from the Diocese of Poona. It was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Bombay until 25 November 2006, when Pope Benedict XVI transferred it to the newly established Metropolitan province of Goa and Damão. Its first bishop is Anthony Alwyn Fernandes Barreto. The parish church in Sawantwadi, dedicated to Our Lady of Miracles, will serve as the cathedral for the diocese. The diocese covers an area of 21,099 km² of the state Maharashtra, covering the districts Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri and Kolhapur except the St. Francis Xavier parish in Kolhapur City. Neighboring dioceses are the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman to the south, the Diocese of Belgaum to the southeast, to the east the Diocese of Poona, to the north the Archdiocese of Bombay, and to the west is the Arabian Sea. The total population in the diocese is 5,365,706, of which 29,794 are Catholic. The diocese is subdivided into 19 parishes. Bishop Alwyn Anthony Fernandes Barreto, is the first Bishop of the Diocese and has served all his life for the Diocese. He comes from an aristocratic family from Velsao Goa which has been knighted by the King of Portugal during the Portuguese rule. link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AntonioBarreto/sandbox A true witness of Bishop Alwyn in 2015 in London stated 'A man of our time' 'Simple' He is widely known as a 'Smiling Bishop' Its stated that Bishop Alwyn has put every penny from his side to the Diocese of Sindhudurgh, the share that he had received from his ancestory has been put in the Diocese to purchase land for the benefit of building schools. ==External links== *(GCatholic.org ) *(Catholic-hierarchy.org ) *(Vatican press release on the creation ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Catholic Diocese of Sindhudurg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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