Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shillong
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shillong is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in the state of Meghalaya, in northeastern India. The Archdiocese of Shillong is the metropolitan diocese of the Province of Shillong, an ecclesiastical province in Northeast India. It serves more than 300,000 followers in 34 parishes in the districts of East Khasi Hills and Ri Bhoi of Meghalaya.History
The cathedral of the Archdiocese is the Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians, in Shillong. It was built over 50 years ago. This place of worship stands on the very site of the first Church built by the German fathers.
The earlier 1913 building – the Church of the Divine Saviour – was a wooden structure.
It was destroyed in the Good Friday fire of 10 April 1936. Built by the first Catholic missionaries to set foot on these hills, the Salvatorians from Germany, it was the first Catholic Cathedral in what was then the Mission of Assam.Ordinaries
; Apostolic Prefects of Assam
; Bishops of Shillong
; Metropolitan Archbishops of Gauhati–Shillong
; Metropolitan Archbishops of Shillong – Gauhati
; Metropolitan Archbishops of Shillong
The Province of Shillong comprises the following suffragan dioceses that has Shillong as it's metropolitan see:
