The Catholic Church in India is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope and the Curia in Rome.There are over 20 million Catholics in India, representing around 1.55% of the total population, and the Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church in India. The Catholics who are members of the Latin Church are called Roman Catholic. There are 174 dioceses in India, organised into 29 provinces. Of these, 132 are of the Latin Catholic Church; 31 are Syro-Malabar Church and 11 are Malankara Syrian Catholic Church dioceses. Despite the small percentage of the Indian population Catholics represent, India has the second-largest Catholic population in Asia after the Philippines.