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).
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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.
- Singasandra, BengaluruSingasandra, BengaluruView parish
- Valencia - MangaloreValencia - MangaloreView parish
- VimalagiriVimalagiriView parish
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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.