Diocese of Alleppey
Alleppeyen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Alleppey, India
The Diocese of Alleppey is a Latin Church diocese in Kerala, India, erected on 19 June 1952 and suffragan to the Archdiocese of Trivandrum. Bishop James Raphael Anaparambil has led the see since 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 19 June 1952
- Latin
- Alleppeyen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Annuario code
- 001000654
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 163,076
- Population
- 805,000
- Catholic share
- 20.3%
- Priests
- 133
- Catholics per priest
- 1,226
- Extent
- 333 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 490
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
- Bishop
- James Raphael Anaparambil
- Born
- 7 March 1962
- Birthplace
- Kandakadavu
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
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, Alappuzha stands in Alleppey, 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 Trivandrum
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Trivandrum.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of NeyyattinkaraNeyyattinkara
- Diocese of PunalurPunalur
- Diocese of QuilonQuilon
- Diocese of TrivandrumTrivandrum
- Eparchy of MarthandomMarthandam
- Eparchy of MavelikaraMavelikara
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Erected from the Diocese of Cochin on June 19, 1952, by Pope Pius XII through the papal bull Ea Redemptoris Verba, the Diocese of Alleppey (Latin: Diœcesis Alleppeyensis) is the Latin Church see of the Catholic Church in the city of Alappuzha, within India's ecclesiastical province of Thiruvananthapuram. Its territory of approx. 333 square kilometers runs along the Arabian Sea between the dioceses of Kochi and Kollam.
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].