Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum explained

Jurisdiction:Major Archeparchy
Trivandrum
Denomination:Catholic Church
Sui Iuris Church:Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Rite:Syro-Malankara Rite
Metropolitan:Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Population As Of:2012
Parishes:217
Patron:Saint Peter
Bishop Title:Major Archbishop
Bishop:Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos
Auxiliary Bishops:Mathews Mar Polycarpos
Website:catholicate.net

The Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum is a Syro-Malankara Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or major archeparchy of the Catholic Church in Trivandrum, India. Baselios Cleemis, the Major Archbishop-Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, presides over the . The cathedra is at St. Mary's Malankara Syrian Catholic Cathedral in Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Archeparchy of Trivandrum is a metropolitan see with four suffragan eparchies.

History

The Archeparchy of Trivandrum was erected in 1932. Its suffragan eparchies are Marthandom, Mavelikara, Pathanamthitta, Parassala and St. Ephrem of Khadki.[1]

Major Archbishop-Catholicos

Baselios Cardinal Cleemis, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum and Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, was elected Major Archbishop of Trivandrum in 2007.

Statistics

In 2020 the Archeparchy had an estimated 1,81,400 faithful, in 217 parishes, with 151 diocesan priests, 34 religious priests, 19 religious brothers, 642 religious sisters, and 89 seminarians.[2]

Saints and causes for canonisation

Seminaries

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Archeparchy of Trivandrum (Malankarese). catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. Web site: The Eastern Catholic Churches 2008. Ronald Roberson. Catholic Near East Welfare Association. 26 April 2010. Information sourced from Annuario Pontificio 2008 edition.
  3. Web site: Saints & Blessed – CCBI. Oct 17, 2019.