Suffragan diocese Alleppey, India
Diocese of Alleppey
Alleppeyen(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1952
- Catholics
- 163,076
- Priests
- 133
- Territory
- 333 km²
Parishes and churches
67 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Our Lady of Mount CarmelAlappuzha · CathedralView parish
- Christ the KingKannamalyView parish
- Christ the KingCheriyapozhyView parish
- DeivajanamathaVadackalView parish
- Holy FamilyKommadyView parish
- Holy FamilyChathanaduView parish
- Holy FamilyKunnummaView parish
- Holy FamilyPerunnermangalamView parish
- ImmanuelSan John PattomView parish
- Little FlowerAayiramthaiView parish
- Little FlowerKalavoorView parish
- Little FlowerMaruvakadView parish
- Mary QueenVandanamView parish
- Our Lady of AssumptionPuthencaduView parish
- Our Lady of AssumptionPoomkavuView parish
- Our Lady of DoloursKanjipadamView parish
- Our Lady of FatimaMoollepallyView parish
- Our Lady of HealthSaudeView parish
- Our Lady of Immaculate ConceptionArappackalView parish
- Our Lady of LorettoLorettoView parish
- Our Lady of PurificationWest ManakodamView parish
- Sacred HeartKomalapuramView parish
- Sacred HeartMayitharaView parish
- Sacred HeartMayitharaView parish
- St AntonyEzhupunnaView parish
- St AntonyCharamangalamView parish
- St AntonyVettackalView parish
- St AugustineMararikulamView parish
- St Francis AssisiThyckalView parish
- St Francis AssisiVellapallyView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- James Raphael Anaparambil
- Born
- 7 March 1962
- Birthplace
- Kandakadavu
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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.
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.