Suffragan eparchy Battery, India
Eparchy of Battery
Batterien(sis)
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic eparchy based at Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad, Kerala, India, created in 1978 by bifurcation of the Diocese of Thiruvalla and formally inaugurated on 2 February 1979. It is a suffragan of the Syro-Malankara Archeparchy of Tiruvalla. Its seat is St. Thomas Malankara Catholic Cathedral in Bathery.
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- Established
- 1978
- Catholics
- 25,600
- Priests
- 82
- Territory
- 67,482 km²
Parishes and churches
99 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Thusharagiri St. Mary's SMCCThusharagiriView parish
- Uppada St. Paul's SMCCUppadaView parish
- Uppatty St. George's SMCCUppattyView parish
- Vakeri St. Mary's SMCCVakeriView parish
- Valakkai St. Thomas SMCCValakkaiView parish
- Valathode St. Mary's SMCCValathodeView parish
- Valluvadi St. Mary's SMCCValluvadiView parish
- Velichamthode St. Jacob's SMCCVelichamthodeView parish
- Venomony St.Mary's SMCCVenomonyView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Joseph Mar Thomas
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The cathedral
St. Thomas Malankara Catholic Cathedral, Bathery stands in Battery, 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
At Sulthan Bathery in Kerala, India, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church maintains the Eparchy of Bathery. Its seat is St. Thomas Syro-Malankara Catholic Cathedral in Sulthan Bathery, and as of 2024 the bishop was Aboon Joseph Mar Thomas.