Diocese of Mississauga
Mississauguen(sis)
Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See · Syro-Malabar Church · Mississauga, Canada
The Eparchy of Mississauga is the Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy for all of Canada, established as an apostolic exarchate in 2015 and raised to an eparchy in 2018. Jose Kalluvelil has served as its first and current eparch.
The see
- Rank
- Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Erected
- 22 December 2018
- Latin
- Mississauguen(sis)
- Patron
- St. Alphonsa
- Annuario code
- 001000316
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 50,000
- Priests
- 24
- Catholics per priest
- 2,083
- Extent
- 9,984,670 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Jose Kalluvelil
- Born
- 15 November 1955
- Birthplace
- Thottuva
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Cathedral stands in Mississauga, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church (immediately subject to the Holy See / Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly)
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
All Syro-Malabar Catholics in Canada belong to the Eparchy of Mississauga, whose episcopal seat is St. Alphonsa Cathedral in the episcopal see of Mississauga. Rather than belonging to any ecclesiastical province, the eparchy is immediately subject to the Holy See and depends on the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].