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Metropolitan see Calicut, India

Archdiocese of Calicut

Calicuten(sis)

The Archdiocese of Calicut is a Latin rite metropolitan archdiocese centered on Kozhikode (Calicut) in Kerala, India, elevated from diocese to archdiocese in April 2025 with Kannur and Sultanpet as suffragan dioceses. Its seat is the Mother of God Cathedral in Kozhikode, and Varghese Chakkalakal was named its first archbishop.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Mother of God Cathedral, Kozhikode, in Calicut, India.

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Established
2025
Catholics
38,092
Priests
184
Territory
12,505 km²

Parishes and churches

50 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Varghese Chakkalakal
Born
7 February 1953
Birthplace
Malapallipuram

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The cathedral

Mother of God Cathedral, Kozhikode stands in Calicut, 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

A Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese in India, Calicut (Latin: Archdioecesis Calicuten(sis)) heads an ecclesiastical province whose suffragan dioceses are the Kannur and Sulthanpet, while itself depending on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its cathedral, Mother of God Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady, stands in the episcopal see of Kozhikode (Calicut).