Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Ujjain
Latin:Dioecesis Uiiainensis
Local:उज्जैन के सूबा
Country:India
Province:Bhopal
Rite:Syro-Malabarese
Area Km2:18,225
Population:4,396,000
Population As Of:2010
Catholics:3,398
Catholics Percent:0.1
Cathedral:St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ujjain
Patron:Saint Paul
Major Archbishop:Mar Raphael Thattil
Bishop:Sebastian Vadakel
Metro Archbishop:Leo Cornelio
Website:Website of the Diocese
Map:Map of Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain.png

The Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain (Ujjain of the Syro-Malabars) is a Syro-Malabar eparchy (Eastern Catholic) in India, part of the rite-specific the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Syro-Oriental Rite).

It thus depends on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches, but is simultaneously a suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bhopal. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Mary's Cathedral, in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh state in central India.

Statistics

As per 2014, it pastorally served 4,602 Eastern Catholics (0.1% of 6,253,649 total) on 18,441 km2 in 41 parishes and a mission with 93 priests (41 diocesan, 52 religious), 433 lay religious (120 brothers, 313 sisters) and 9 seminarians.

History

Ordinaries

(all Syro-Malabar Rite)

Apostolic Exarch of Ujjain
Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Ujjain

See also

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