Diocese of Coimbatore
| Diocese of Coimbatore | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore |
| Diocesan bishop | Thomas Aquinas Lephonse |
| Vicar General | Gurusamy Madalaimuthu |
| founding | 1850 |
| surface | 26,741 km² |
| Parishes | 61 (December 28, 2013) |
| Residents | 1,243,059 (December 28, 2013) |
| Catholics | 223,294 (December 28, 2013) |
| proportion of | 18% |
| Diocesan priest | 114 (December 28, 2013) |
| Religious priest | 17 (December 28, 2013) |
| Catholics per priest | 1,705 |
| Friars | 45 (December 28, 2013) |
| Religious sisters | 641 (December 28, 2013) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | St. Michael's Cathedral |
| Website | www.coimbatorediocese.com |
The diocese of Coimbatore ( lat. : Dioecesis Coimbaturensis ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Coimbatore . It covers parts of the districts of Coimbatore , Erode , Tirupur , Tiruchirappalli and Palakkad in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala . The cathedral of the diocese is St. Michael's Cathedral in Coimbatore.
history
The Pro-Vicariate Apostolic Coimbatore was established in 1845 from cessions of territory by the Vicariate Apostolic Madura and Coromandel Coast and the diocese of Madura . It was founded in 1850 by Pope Pius IX. raised as the Apostolic Vicariate of Coimbatore . On September 1, 1886, the Vicariate Apostolic Coimbatore was raised to the diocese. The diocese gave up on June 12, 1923 parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Calicut and on December 28, 2013 to establish the diocese of Sultanpet . The Diocese of Coimbatore is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore as a suffragan .
Ordinaries of Coimbatore
Vicars Apostolic
- Melchior-Marie-Joseph de Marion-Brésillac SMA , 1850–1855
- Claude-Marie Dépommier MEP, 1865–1873
- Etienne-Auguste-Joseph-Louis Bardou MEP, 1874-1886
Bishops
- Etienne-Auguste-Joseph-Louis Bardou MEP, 1886-1903
- Jacques-Denis Peyramale MEP, 1903
- Augustine-Antoine Roy MEP, 1904-1930
- Marie-Louis-Joseph-Constantin Tournier MEP, 1932–1938
- Ubagaraswani Bernadotte , 1940-1949
- Francis Xavier Muthappa , 1949-1971
- Manuel Visuvasam , 1972-1979
- Ambrose Mathalaimuthu , 1979-2002
- Thomas Aquinas Lephonse , since 2002
See also
Web links
- Entry on the Diocese of Coimbatore on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved June 12, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Establishment of the Sultanpet Diocese , Press Office of the Holy See, Daily Bulletin of December 28, 2013