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Suffragan eparchy Pathanamthitta, India

Eparchy of Pathanamthitta

Pathanamthitten(sis)

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Syro-Malankara Catholic eparchy in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, India, erected by Pope Benedict XVI on 25 January 2010 from the Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum, of which it is a suffragan. Its seat is St. Peter's Cathedral in Pathanamthitta, serving about 40,600 Malankara-rite Catholics (2010).

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for St. Peter's Cathedral, Pathanamthitta, in Pathanamthitta, India.

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Established
2010
Catholics
40,563
Priests
89
Territory
2,100 km²

Parishes and churches

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The bishop

Eparch
Samuel Mar Irenios

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The cathedral

St. Peter's Cathedral, Pathanamthitta stands in Pathanamthitta, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Created by Pope Benedict XVI on 25 January 2010, the Eparchy of Pathanamthitta is a Syro-Malankara Catholic Church eparchy of the Catholic Church in Kerala, India. Yoohanon Chrysostom became the first eparch, and St. Peter’s Malankara Catholic Church in the episcopal see of Pathanamthitta serves as the cathedral church. The eparchy is a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archeparchy of Trivandrum.