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Suffragan eparchy Ramanathapuram, India

Eparchy of Ramanathapuram

Ramanathapuramen(sis)

Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy in Tamil Nadu, India, erected 18 January 2010 by dividing the Eparchy of Palghat, and a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Thrissur. It serves about 15,700 East Syriac-rite Catholics across the Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Karur, Salem, Tiruchirappalli, Thanjavur, and Nagapattinam districts, with Holy Trinity Church in Ramanathapuram (Coimbatore) as its cathedral.

On the map

Esri
Ramanathapuram, India, drawn to the town rather than to the door: the register holds no verified address for its cathedral.

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Established
2010
Catholics
15,694
Priests
1,632
Territory
18,525 km²

Parishes and churches

43 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Eparch
Mar Paul Alappatt
Born
21 April 1962
Birthplace
Edathuruthy

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The cathedral

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Ramanathapuram stands in Ramanathapuram, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Created in 2010 by bifurcating the Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy of Palghat, the Eparchy of Ramanathapuram sits in the Ramanathapuram locality of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Its territory covers the districts of Coimbatore, Tirupur, Erode, Karur, Salem, Tiruchirappalli, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam, having been extended to Salem and Trichy on 10 October 2017. Mar Paul Alappat is the present Bishop of Ramanathapuram.