Suffragan eparchy Rajkot, India
Eparchy of Rajkot
Raikoten(sis)
Syro-Malabar Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy serving the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat, India, erected in 1977 by Pope Paul VI's bull De recta fidelium, separated from the Diocese of Ahmedabad. Its seat is the Sacred Heart Syro-Malabar Cathedral in Rajkot; since August 2025 it belongs to the province of the Archeparchy of Kalyan. Catholics number about 13,000 (2010).
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- Established
- 1977
- Catholics
- 13,000
- Priests
- 133
- Territory
- 109,950 km²
Parishes and churches
13 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- Sacred Heart Syro-Malabar Cathedral (Prem Mandir)Rajkot · CathedralView parish
- Assumption Church (Our Lady of Assumption)Mithapur (Devbhumi Dwarka District)View parish
- Dayamayi Mata ChurchSurendranagarView parish
- Immaculate Conception ChurchRajkotView parish
- Sacred Heart ChurchJamnagarView parish
- Sacred Heart ChurchPorbandarView parish
- St. Ann's ChurchJunagadhView parish
- St. Mary's ChurchBhujView parish
- St. Mary's ChurchBhavnagarView parish
- St. Mary's ParishParnala (Limbdi, Surendranagar District)View parish
- St. Thomas ChurchGandhidhamView parish
- St. Xavier's Catholic ChurchBhavnagarView parish
- Stella Maris ChurchVeravalView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Mar Jose Chittooparambil, CMI
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The cathedral
Sacred Heart Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Rajkot stands in Rajkot, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
In 1977, Pope Paul VI's Bull De recta fidelium carved a new Eastern Catholic eparchy out of the Diocese of Ahmedabad: the Eparchy of Rajkot, in Gujarat, India, belonging to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Sacred Heart Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Rajkot serves as its cathedral. By decree of the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church effective 28 August 2025, it became a suffragan eparchy of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Kalyan.