Eparchy of Sagar
Sagaren(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Syro-Malabar Church · Sagar, India
Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy in Madhya Pradesh, India, established as an apostolic exarchate in 1968 from Latin-rite territory of the Archdiocese of Bhopal (the Sagar, Raisen, and Vidisha districts) and elevated to eparchy in 1977. It is a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Ujjain, with St. Theresa's Cathedral in Sagar Cantonment as its seat, serving about 3,400 Catholics (2010).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Erected
- 29 July 1968
- Latin
- Sagaren(sis)
- Patron
- St. Therese of Lisieux
- Annuario code
- 001002793
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 3,361
- Population
- 4,907,000
- Catholic share
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 74
- Catholics per priest
- 45
- Extent
- 39,020 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
- Eparch
- Mar James Athikalam, MST
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
St. Theresa's Cathedral, Sagar Cantonment stands in Sagar, 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 Ujjain (Syro-Malabar)
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Ujjain.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Sagar is an Eastern Catholic eparchy of central India belonging to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (of the Chaldean or Syro-Oriental Rite, led by the Major Archbishop), a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Ujjain. First created as a missionary jurisdiction in 1968, it was promoted to a diocese in 1977 through the papal bull Divina Verba of Pope Paul VI. St. Theresa's Cathedral in Saga(u)r is its cathedral episcopal see.
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].