Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka

Archdiocese of Dhaka Archidioecesis Dhakensis ঢাকার বিশপের এলাকা
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Dhaka
Location
Country	Bangladesh
Ecclesiastical province	Dhaka
Statistics
Area	14,193 km2 (5,480 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 23,339,945 62,780 (0.3%)
Parishes	18
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	19 October 1982 (as Archdiocese of Dhaka)
Cathedral	St Mary's Cathedral in Dhaka
Patron saint	Immaculate Conception
Secular priests	125
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Patrick D'Rozario
Suffragans	Diocese of Barisal Diocese of Chittagong Diocese of Dinajpur Diocese of Khulna Diocese of Mymensingh Diocese of Rajshahi Diocese of Sylhet
Auxiliary Bishops	Theotonius Gomes
Emeritus Bishops	Paulinus Costa Archbishop Emeritus (2005-2011)

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka (Latin: Archidioecesis Dhakensis) is the Latin, main Metropolitan Metropolitan diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, but no longer the only one. It still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

The archdiocese's Marian mother church and thus seat of its archbishop is St. Mary's Cathedral in the national capital Dhaka. As senior Metropolitan in Bangladesh, it is the principal episcopal see of that country. As of 2013^[update] the Archbishop of Dhaka is Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, formerly Bishop of Chittagong, having been appointed Coadjutor Archbishop by Pope Benedict XVI on November 2010, and succeeded Archbishop Paulinus Costa, C.S.C., in October 2011.

Its ecclesiastical province still has as suffragan sees

On 2 February 2017, it lost as suffragans the henceforth Metropolitan new Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chittagong and both its simultaneously transferred suffragan sees: Roman Catholic Diocese of Barisal and Roman Catholic Diocese of Khulna.