page_title: Territories of Catholic dioceses in India
section_title: Province of Ranchi
hierarchical_section_title: Territories of Catholic dioceses in India / Latin Ecclesiastical Provinces / Province of Ranchi
caption_attribution_description: Català: Mapa de l'arquebisbat de Ranchi a l'Índia English: Map of the Roman Catholic Archiocese of Ranchi in India
context_page_description: This page gives a list of the territories of the dioceses of the Catholic Church in India.
  Each diocese is administered by a bishop. Dioceses are further grouped into Ecclesiastical provinces. The most important diocese of the province is the archdiocese and the bishop of this diocese is an archbishop. While they each usually consist of a few Indian civil districts, dioceses can range in size from just a portion of a district to spanning entire states. The civil district should not be confused with ecclesiastical district or deanery, which is another type of subdivision of a diocese.
  All Catholics in India are under the authority of the respective Syro-Malankara, Syro-Malabar or Latin bishop. Only in the Syro-Malabar dioceses of Adilabad, Bijnor, Chanda, Gorakhpur, Jagdalpur, Rajkot, Sagar, Satna and Ujjain, the authority of the Syro-Malabar bishop is over both, Syro-Malabar and Latin rite Catholics.
  In the following, the names listed after the name of the state or union territory are the names of civil districts, unless otherwise mentioned.
context_section_description: Archdiocese of Ranchi
  Jharkhand: Ranchi and Lohardaga
  Diocese of Daltonganj
  Jharkhand: Palamau, Garhwa and Latehar
  Diocese of Dumka
  Jharkhand: Dumka, Sahibganj, Pakur, Jamtara and Madhupur subdivision of Deoghar
  West Bengal: Rampurhat sub-division of Birbhum
  Diocese of Gumla
  Jharkhand: Gumla and part of Simdega
  Diocese of Hazaribag
  Jharkhand: Chatra, Hazaribag, Ramgarh, Koderma and Bokaro excluding, the Chandankiyari block of Bokaro district together with that portion of Chas block which lies to the east of National Highway 32
  Diocese of Jamshedpur
  Jharkhand:  East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum (excluding the parish of Bandgoan), Seraikela Kharsawan, Dhanbad, a portion of Bokaro district (namely the Chandankiyari Block and the Chas Block which lie East of National Highway 32)
  West Bengal: Purulia
  Diocese of Khunti
  Jharkhand: Khunti
  Diocese of Port Blair
  Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Entire union territory
  Diocese of Simdega
  Jharkhand: Simdega
caption: Map showing the location of the Archdiocese of Ranchi in India
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