Metropolitan see Ujjain, India
Archdiocese of Ujjain
Uiiainen(sis)
Syro-Malabar Church
Syro-Malabar metropolitan archeparchy in Madhya Pradesh, India, created as an apostolic exarchate on 29 July 1968 from the Diocese of Indore, made an eparchy on 26 February 1977, and elevated to a metropolitan archeparchy on 28 August 2025. Seated at St Mary's Cathedral in Ujjain, it heads a central India province with suffragans Sagar, Satna and Jagdalpur.
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- Established
- 1968
- Catholics
- 3,398
- Priests
- 96
- Territory
- 18,225 km²
Parishes and churches
41 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St.Joseph's Catholic ChurchChandukhedyView parish
- St.Joseph's Catholic ChurchNarsinghgarhView parish
- St.Joseph's Catholic ChurchShajapurView parish
- St.Mary's ChurchBerchaView parish
- St.Peter's Catholic ChurchShujalpurView parish
- St.Sebastian's ChurchKanadView parish
- St.Xavier's ChurchNagdaView parish
- Susner Catholic ChurchSusnerView parish
- Tarana Catholic ChurchTaranaView parish
- Udenkhedy Catholic ChurchUdenkhedyView parish
- Zirapur Catholic ChurchZirapurView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Mar Sebastian Vadakel
- Born
- 7 October 1952
- Birthplace
- Vilakumadam
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The cathedral
St Mary's Cathedral, Ujjain stands in Ujjain, 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
Ujjain is an ecclesiastical district of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic Church of the East Syriac Rite in India, with its cathedral episcopal see at St. Mary's Cathedral in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, in Central India. In August 2025 Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil raised it to an archeparchy and named Mar Sebastian Vadakel, the bishop of Ujjain, its first Metropolitan Archbishop. The archeparchy now heads the church's ecclesiastical province serving most of Central India.