Eparchy Mavelikara

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Eparchy Mavelikara
Basic data
Rite church Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Country India
Metropolitan bishopric Grand Archbishopric of Trivandrum
Diocesan bishop Joshuah Ignathios Kizhakkeveettil
surface 4,048 km²
Parishes 96 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 3,260,000 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 25,722 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 0.8%
Diocesan priest 56 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 12 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 378
Friars 14 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 166 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Antiochian rite
cathedral St. Mary's Cathedral Punnamoodu

The eparchy Mavelikara ( Latin Eparchia Mavelikarensis ) is in India located eparchy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church based in Mavelikara , Alappuzha district , Kerala . Since the foundation, the local ordinary has been Joshuah Ignathios Kizhakkeveettil .

history

Pope Benedict XVI founded it on January 2, 2007 from cession of territory by the Grand Archdiocese of Trivandrum , to which it was also subordinated as a suffragan diocese.

The diocese only includes 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.

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