Diocese of Quilon
Quilonen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Quilon, India
The Diocese of Quilon is a Latin Catholic diocese in Kollam, Kerala, regarded as the oldest diocese in India. First erected in 1329 and re-erected in 1886, it is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Trivandrum.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1 September 1886
- Latin
- Quilonen(sis)
- Patron
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Annuario code
- 001002703
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 239,400
- Population
- 5,309,000
- Catholic share
- 4.5%
- Priests
- 129
- Catholics per priest
- 1,856
- Extent
- 1,950 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 123
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Bishop
- Paul Antony Mullassery
- Born
- 15 January 1960
- Birthplace
- Kaithakody
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
Infant Jesus Cathedral, Tangasseri, Kollam stands in Quilon, 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 Trivandrum
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Trivandrum.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AlleppeyAlleppey
- Diocese of NeyyattinkaraNeyyattinkara
- Diocese of PunalurPunalur
- Diocese of TrivandrumTrivandrum
- Eparchy of MarthandomMarthandam
- Eparchy of MavelikaraMavelikara
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Based in Kollam, a city in southern India, the Diocese of Quilon belongs to the Latin Church. Its origins reach back to 1329, when the diocese was first created, though the bishop never took canonical possession. Gregory XVI later re-established Quilon as a diocese suffragan of Verapoly on 1 September 1886. The diocese was afterward placed as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Trivandrum.
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].