Diocese of Trivandrum
Trivandren(sis) Syrorum Malankarensium
Major archiepiscopal Church · Latin Church · Trivandrum, India
The Archdiocese of Trivandrum is the Latin Catholic metropolitan see based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Erected as a diocese in 1937 and raised to an archdiocese in 2004, it oversees the suffragan dioceses of Quilon, Alleppey, Punalur, and Neyyattinkara.
The see
- Rank
- Major archiepiscopal Church
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 10 February 2005
- Latin
- Trivandren(sis) Syrorum Malankarensium
- Patron
- Therese of Lisieux
- Annuario code
- 001000569
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 297,121
- Population
- 2,543,100
- Catholic share
- 11.7%
- Priests
- 261
- Catholics per priest
- 1,138
- Extent
- 686 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 433
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
- Thomas Jessayyan Netto
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, Palayam, Thiruvananthapuram stands in Trivandrum, 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 Trivandrum
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of AlleppeyAlleppey
- Diocese of NeyyattinkaraNeyyattinkara
- Diocese of PunalurPunalur
- Diocese of QuilonQuilon
- Eparchy of MarthandomMarthandam
- Eparchy of MavelikaraMavelikara
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India, is the episcopal see of this Latin Church archdiocese (Latin: Trivandren(sis) Latinorum). The see is shared with the major archeparchy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, the Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum. As a metropolitan see, the archdiocese heads an ecclesiastical province with four suffragan dioceses.
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].