Suffragan eparchy Irinjalakuda, India
Eparchy of Irinjalakuda
Irinialakuden(sis)
Syro-Malabar Church
Syro-Malabar (East Syriac rite) eparchy in Thrissur District, Kerala, India, suffragan of the Archeparchy of Thrissur. Erected 22 June 1978 by Pope Paul VI from territory of the Eparchy of Trichur. Its seat is Saint Thomas Cathedral, Irinjalakuda.
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- Established
- 1978
- Catholics
- 269,867
- Priests
- 350
- Territory
- 1,180 km²
Parishes and churches
157 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St. Mary’s ChurchPongothraMass times recorded
- St. Mary’s ChurchPulinkaraView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchSanthinagarView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchSnehapuramView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchThazhurView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchThesseryView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchThottipalView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchVelayanadView parish
- St. Mary’s ChurchVennoorView parish
- St. Mary’s Forane ChurchKalparambuView parish
- St. Mathew's ChurchThumboorView parish
- St. Paul's ChurchAroormuzhiView parish
- St. Paul's Church (Filial Church)PerambraView parish
- St. Paul’s ChurchPindaniView parish
- St. Peter's ChurchPoovathingalView parish
- St. Sebastian ChurchPonjanamView parish
- St. Sebastian's ChurchEdakulamView parish
- St. Sebastian's ChurchKadapuramView parish
- St. Sebastian's ChurchNirmal NagarView parish
- St. Sebastian's Forane ChurchKuttikadView parish
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchKallankunnuMass times recorded
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchKallurView parish
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchKodungaView parish
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchPorathisseryView parish
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchThachudaparambuView parish
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchThirumukulamView parish
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchThumbacodeView parish
- St. Sebastian’s ChurchVadachiraView parish
- St. Sebastian’s Major Archiepiscopal Shrine ChurchThazhekadView parish
- St. Stanislaus Forane ChurchMalaView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Mar Pauly Kannookadan
- Born
- 14 February 1961
- Birthplace
- Kuzhikattussery
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The cathedral
Saint Thomas Cathedral, Irinjalakuda stands in Irinjalakuda, 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
Within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Thrissur, the Eparchy of Irinjalakuda is a suffragan eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the Syro-Malabar Church, located in Thrissur District of Kerala state, southern India. Saint Thomas Cathedral in Irinjalakuda city serves as its cathedral episcopal see, and Bishop Pauly Kannookkadan now heads the diocese. The former cathedral (of Arch diocese of Crangannore).