Major archiepiscopal Church Trivandrum, India
Diocese of Trivandrum
Trivandren(sis) Syrorum Malankarensium
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
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.
On the map
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- Established
- 1937
- Catholics
- 297,121
- Priests
- 261
- Territory
- 686 km²
Parishes and churches
108 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St. PeterPulinkudyView parish
- St. Pius XKumarapuramView parish
- St. RochPoothuraView parish
- St. SebastianKunnukuzhyView parish
- St. SebastianMalamugalView parish
- St. SebastianMoongodeView parish
- St. SebastianPunnamooduView parish
- St. SebastianVettuthuraView parish
- St. SebastiansCheruvettucaduView parish
- St. Theresa of LisieuxVellalumbuView parish
- St. ThomasSamathuvapuramView parish
- St. ThomasAvukulamView parish
- St. ThomasPoonkulamView parish
- St. ThomasValiaveliView parish
- St. Thomas AquinasKochuthuraView parish
- Velankanni MathaNambyathiView parish
- Velankanni MathaCheruvaikalView parish
- Vimala Hridaya MathaKanjiramparaView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Thomas Jessayyan Netto
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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.
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.