Eparchy of Adilabad
Adilabaden(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Syro-Malabar Church · Adilabad, India
Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy based in Adilabad, Telangana, India, erected on 23 July 1999 by Pope John Paul II. It is a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Shamshabad, with the Holy Family Cathedral in Adilabad as its seat. Its patron is St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Erected
- 23 June 1999
- Latin
- Adilabaden(sis)
- Patron
- St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara
- Annuario code
- 001000601
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 16,403
- Population
- 2,741,239
- Catholic share
- 0.6%
- Priests
- 35
- Catholics per priest
- 469
- Extent
- 16,210 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.0
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Mar Joseph Lukose Thachaparambath, C.M.I.
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
Holy Family Cathedral, Adilabad stands in Adilabad, 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 Shamshabad
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Shamshabad.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of ShamshabadShamshabad
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Pope John Paul II erected the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Adilabad on 23 July 1999. Its first bishop, Mar Joseph Kunnath CMI, received episcopal ordination on 6 October 1999, the same occasion on which the diocese was inaugurated.
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].