Eparchy of Puthur
Puthuren(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Syro-Malankara Catholic Church · Puthur, India
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).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
- Erected
- 25 January 2010
- Latin
- Puthuren(sis)
- Patron
- São José
- Annuario code
- 001002690
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 2,270
- Priests
- 10
- Catholics per priest
- 227
- Extent
- 51,950 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- George Kalayil
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Noojibalthila stands in Puthur, 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.
The province of Tiruvalla (Syro-Malankara)
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Tiruvalla.
The sees of this province:
- Eparchy of MuvattupuzhaMuvattupuzha
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].