Suffragan eparchy Palghat, India
Eparchy of Palghat
Palghaten(sis)
Syro-Malabar Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India, erected 20 June 1974 by bifurcating the Eparchy of Trichur with a few parishes added from Tellicherry. It is a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Thrissur and serves about 56,700 East Syriac-rite Catholics (2010).
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- Established
- 1974
- Catholics
- 56,668
- Priests
- 222
- Territory
- 4,480 km²
Parishes and churches
129 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St.Jude ChurchThonikuzhyView parish
- St.Mary ChurchAlengadView parish
- St.Mary ChurchArogyapuramView parish
- St.Mary ChurchCherpulasseryView parish
- St.Mary ChurchChittadi (Marianagar)View parish
- St.Mary ChurchKadaparaView parish
- St.Mary ChurchKallepullyView parish
- St.Mary ChurchKarakurussiView parish
- St.Mary ChurchKarimkayamView parish
- St.Mary ChurchMalayakamView parish
- St.Mary ChurchMaria Nagar MLPZView parish
- St.Mary ChurchMylampullyView parish
- St.Mary ChurchPalakkayamView parish
- St.Mary ChurchPalappuramView parish
- St.Mary ChurchPalliyaraView parish
- St.Mary ChurchPullisseryView parish
- St.Mary ChurchThathamangalamView parish
- St.Mary ChurchVimalagiriView parish
- St.Paul ChurchKallaView parish
- St.Paul ChurchPattambiView parish
- St.Peter ChurchJellipparaView parish
- St.Peter ChurchMankurissyView parish
- St.Pius Xth ChurchOlipparaView parish
- St.Sebastian ChurchArapparaView parish
- St.Sebastian ChurchIrumpakacholaView parish
- St.Sebastian ChurchKuruvampadyView parish
- St.Sebastian ChurchNjarakodeView parish
- St.Teresa of Avila ChurchAnamoolyView parish
- St.Teressa of Calcutta ChurchKairadyView parish
- St.Thomas Aquinas ChurchAkathetharaView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Mar Peter Kochupurackal
- Born
- 29 May 1964
- Birthplace
- Marangoli
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The cathedral
St Raphael’s Cathedral stands in Palghat, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
Centered on the city of Palakkad in the state of Kerala, in South India, the Eparchy of Palghat is a diocese of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and a suffragan bishopric of the Archdiocese of Trichur. Peter Kochupurackal, appointed in 2022, is the current bishop.