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Suffragan diocese Tiruchirapalli, India

Diocese of Tiruchirapalli

Tiruchirapolitan(us)

Latin-rite diocese in Tamil Nadu, India, with roots in the 1836 Apostolic Vicariate of Madura and Coromandel Coast; erected as a diocese in 1886, known as Trichinopoly from 1887, and renamed Tiruchirapalli in 1950. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Madurai, seated at St Mary's Cathedral (Our Lady of Health) in Tiruchirappalli.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for St Mary's Cathedral (Our Lady of Health), Tiruchirappalli, in Tiruchirapalli, India.

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Established
1886
Catholics
208,990
Priests
292
Territory
5,198 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Bishop
Savarimuthu Arokiaraj
Born
24 October 1954
Birthplace
Lalapettai

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The cathedral

St Mary's Cathedral (Our Lady of Health), Tiruchirappalli stands in Tiruchirapalli, 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

Tiruchirapalli, also called Trichy, is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Tiruchirapolitan(us)) in the ecclesiastical province of Madurai in India. Its episcopal seat is St. Mary's Cathedral, Tiruchirappalli, known as well as the Cathedral of the Mother of Good Health.