Roman Catholic Diocese of Mymensingh
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mymensingh is a diocese
located in the city of Mymensingh
in the Ecclesiastical province
of Dhaka
in Bangladesh.
Diocese
A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...
located in the city of Mymensingh
Mymensingh
Mymensingh , pronounced moy-mon-shing-haw, is a city of Bangladesh situated on the river Brahmaputra. It is the headquarters of the administrative unit Mymensingh District. Mymensingh is the anglicized pronunciation of the original name Momenshahi, referring to a ruler called Momen Shah. The cadet...
in the Ecclesiastical province
Ecclesiastical Province
An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion...
of Dhaka
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dhaka is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh. It was erected it as the Apostolic Vicariate of Eastern Bengal by Pope Pius IX in 1850, promoted to the rank of a diocese on September 1, 1886, and renamed as...
in Bangladesh.
History
- May 15, 1987: Established as Diocese of Mymensingh from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dhaka
Leadership
- BishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
s of Mymensingh (Roman rite)- Bishop Paul Ponen Kubi, C.S.C. (July 15, 2006 – present)
- Bishop Francis Anthony GomesFrancis Anthony GomesFrancis Anthony Gomes was the Roman Catholicbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mymensingh, Bangladesh.Ordained in 1959, Gomes was appointed bishop of the Mymensingh Diocese in 1987 and retired in 2006....
(May 15, 1987 – July 15, 2006)