Archeparchy of Tellicherry
Tellicherrien(sis)
Eastern metropolitan see · Syro-Malabar Church · Tellicherry, India
Syro-Malabar metropolitan archeparchy in northern Kerala, India, erected as the Eparchy of Tellicherry on 31 December 1953 by Pope Pius XII and raised to a metropolitan archeparchy on 18 May 1995. Its seat is St Joseph's Cathedral in Thalassery.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Erected
- 31 December 1953
- Latin
- Tellicherrien(sis)
- Patron
- St Joseph
- Annuario code
- 001003192
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 274,460
- Population
- 3,814,247
- Catholic share
- 7.2%
- Priests
- 475
- Catholics per priest
- 578
- Extent
- 4,958 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 55
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
- Archbishop
- Mar Joseph Pamplany
- Born
- 11 December 1969
- Birthplace
- Charal
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 Joseph's Cathedral, Thalassery stands in Tellicherry, 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 Tellicherry
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Eparchy of BelthangadyBelthangady
- Eparchy of BhadravathiBhadravathi
- Eparchy of MananthavadyMananthavady
- Eparchy of MandyaMandya
- Eparchy of ThamarasserryThamarasserry
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Tellicherry, anglicized also as the Archdiocese of Thalassery, is an archeparchy of the Syro-Malabar Church in India. Because settlers had spread into the neighbouring States, the boundaries of the Thalassery ecclesiastical province were extended to take in Mangalore, Chickmangalore, Mysore, Shimoga and Ootty. The diocese spans 18,000 km2 and counts a Catholic population of 273,826. Joseph Pamplany has served as Metropolitan Archbishop since 2022.
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].