| Year of Establishment |
1941 (1945) |
| Location |
Golaghat town |
| The person who Started |
Fr. Peter Jeans Neyens SDB |
| Number of Catholics at present |
5000 |
History of the Parish
It was on 4th August 1941, Fr. Peter Jean Neyens sdb, and Fr. Marino Uguet sdb visited
Golaghat and decided to open a mission center. On 24th August 1941 Bishop Stephen Ferrando sdb of Shillong inaugurated and blessed the Golaghat mission, placing it under the powerful patronage of St. Theresa of Child Jesus.
The missionary zeal of Fr. Neyens is proved by the fact that by January 1942 he had 95 flourishing communities, now divided into several parishes. During the Second World War Fr. Neyens got a quit order from India and on 30th March 1946 left for an Australian mission. After the departure of Fr. Neyens, Fr. Felix Bollini sdb arrived in Golaghat on 6th December
1946. He writes: “ I began the best 23 years of my missionary life all in the mission of Golaghat. At that time there was no other mission centre in the whole of Jorhat district, Karbi-Anglong, Nagaland and Manipur.”
The real missionary expansion work of Golaghat Mission started with Fr. Bollini. He contacted new communities and opened many new centers.
Golaghat is the second oldest parish in the diocese of Dibrugarh and the oldest Salesian institution in the province of Dimapur, which was officially inaugurated on 18th June 1982.
Names of substations (villages & Tea Estates in alphabetical order) with distances in Kilo meters from the Parish centre:
