Diocese of Coimbatore
Coimbaturen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Coimbatore, India
The Diocese of Coimbatore is a Latin rite diocese in Tamil Nadu, India, erected as a diocese in 1886 and suffragan of the Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore. Its seat is St Michael's Cathedral in Coimbatore.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 September 1886
- Latin
- Coimbaturen(sis)
- Patron
- St Michael the Archangel
- Annuario code
- 001001187
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 258,600
- Population
- 12,124,000
- Catholic share
- 2.1%
- Priests
- 146
- Catholics per priest
- 1,771
- Extent
- 28,490 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 9.1
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
- Thomas Aquinas Lephonse
- Born
- 6 March 1953
- Birthplace
- Pillaithope
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
St Michael's Cathedral, Coimbatore stands in Coimbatore, 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 Madras and Mylapore
A suffragan of Madras and Mylapore.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore (Meliapor)Chennai
- Diocese of ChingleputChengalpattu
- Diocese of OotacamundOotacamund
- Diocese of VelloreVellore
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Based in the city of Coimbatore in India, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Coimbatore (Latin: Coimbaturen(sis)) forms part of the ecclesiastical province of Madras and Mylapore.
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].