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.Thomas ChurchCheenickaparaView parish
- St.Thomas ChurchChittoor ATPYView parish
- St.Thomas ChurchElavampadamView parish
- St.Thomas ChurchMalampuzha SouthView parish
- St.Thomas ChurchPalakkuzhyView parish
- St.Thomas Forane ChurchKanjirapuzhaView parish
- St.William ChurchEdathanattukaraView parish
- St.Xavier ChurchMangalam DamView parish
- Vimala Hrudhaya ChurchKodunthirapallyView 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.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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.