Battery eparchy
| Battery eparchy | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Rite church | Syro-Malankara Catholic Church |
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archeparchy of Tiruvalla |
| Diocesan bishop | Joseph Thomas Konnath |
| Vicar General | Mathew Chamakalayil Varghese Thannickakuzhy |
| surface | 67,482 km² |
| Parishes | 104 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Residents | 1,941,800 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics | 25,000 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| proportion of | 1.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 61 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious priest | 4 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 385 |
| Friars | 4 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| Religious sisters | 298 (2015 / AP 2016 ) |
| rite | Antiochian rite |
| cathedral | St. Thomas Cathedral |
| Website | www.bathery.org |
The eparchy Battery ( Latin Eparchia Batteriensis ) is in India located eparchy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church , located in Sulthan Bathery , Wayanad , Kerala .
history
The Battery Eparchy was established on October 28, 1978 by Pope John Paul II with the Apostolic Constitution Constat Paulum VI from the cession of the Tiruvalla Eparchy and subordinated to the Trivandrum Archparchy as a suffragan diocese. On May 15, 2006, the Battery Eparchy was subordinated to the Tiruvalla Archeparchy as a suffragan diocese. The Battery Eparchy gave up parts of its territory on January 25, 2010 to establish the Puthur Eparchy .
The Battery Eparchy only records the Syro-Malankar Catholics of the area. The Catholics of the Latin rite and the Syro-Malabar rite who also live there belong to other dioceses.
Bishops of the Battery eparchy
- Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil OIC , 1978–1995, then Archbishop of Trivandrum
- Geevarghese Divannasios Ottathengil , 1996–2010, later Bishop of Puthur
- Joseph Thomas Konnath , since 2010
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Eparchie Battery (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Entry on Eparchie Battery on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
- Entry about the Eparchie Battery on www.gcatholic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Constat Paulum VI , AAS 71 (1979), n.1 , p. 5f.