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Suffragan eparchy Puthur, India

Eparchy of Puthur

Puthuren(sis)

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Syro-Malankara Catholic eparchy based at Puttur in Karnataka, India, erected 25 January 2010 by splitting the Eparchy of Bathery. A suffragan of the Archeparchy of Tiruvalla, its seat is St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral at Noojibalthila, serving a small Malankara-rite community of about 2,270 faithful (2015).

On the map

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

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Established
2010
Catholics
2,270
Priests
10
Territory
51,950 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Eparch
George Kalayil

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The cathedral

St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Noojibalthila stands in Puthur, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Puthur (also written Puttur) holds a distinction within the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church: it was the first Syro-Malankara diocese established in southern Karnataka, India. The eparchy, sometimes called Puthur of the Syro-Malankars, is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Syro-Malankara Catholic Archeparchy of Tiruvalla. That province in turn depends on the Major Archbishop of Trivandrum, head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (an Antiochian Rite Eastern Catholic particular church using the Syriac and Malayalam languages), and through him on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.