Suffragan diocese Quilon, India
Diocese of Quilon
Quilonen(sis)
Latin Church
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.
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- Established
- 1886
- Catholics
- 239,400
- Priests
- 129
- Territory
- 1,950 km²
Parishes and churches
97 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St. ThomasKandachiraView parish
- St. ThomasSasthamkottaView parish
- St. ThomasVempuzhaView parish
- Three KingsMaruthadiView parish
- Three KingsVadakkumthalaView parish
- Velamkanni MathaKulangarabhagamView parish
- Viswa RaniAyathilView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Paul Antony Mullassery
- Born
- 15 January 1960
- Birthplace
- Kaithakody
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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.
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.