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Suffragan diocese Alleppey, India

Diocese of Alleppey

Alleppeyen(sis)

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.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, Alappuzha, in Alleppey, India.

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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.

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.