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Suffragan eparchy Palai, India

Eparchy of Palai

Palaien(sis)

Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy in central Kerala, India, erected 25 July 1950 from the territory of Changanacherry and a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Changanassery. Its seat is the Cathedral of St. Thomas in Palai, and it serves about 326,700 East Syriac-rite Catholics (2009), nearly half the local population.

On the map

Esri
Palai, India, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
1950
Catholics
326,747
Priests
572
Territory
1,166 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Eparch
Mar Joseph Kallarangatt
Born
29 November 1956
Birthplace
Kayyoor

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The cathedral

St. Thomas Cathedral, Palai stands in Palai, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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