SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL, ASANSOL

History: Fr. Jaques, S. J. settled down in Asansol in 1873 and acquired land. The Church was blessed on Christmas night in 1876. St. Maria Goretti School for Hindi speaking girls was started in 1949 as there were already English medium schools for English speaking people, viz. St. Patrick’s and Loreto. In 1975, St. John’s Social Center was built at Chelidanga and in 1979 it was made and independent centre. Sacred Heart Church became the Cathedral of the Diocese of Asansol when His Holiness Pope John Paul II erected Asansol as the diocese bifurcating it from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Calcutta.