Vatican City, 29 December 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed:
- erected the new diocese of Barisal
(area 20,708, population 15,183,927, Catholics 29,685, priests 19,
religious 33), Bangladesh, with territory from the diocese of
Chittagong, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
- appointed Bishop Subroto Lawrence
Howlader, C.S.C., auxiliary of Chittagong, as first bishop of the
diocese of Barisal, Bangladesh.
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