Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain
Diocese of Ujjain Dioecesis Uiiainensis उज्जैन के सूबा | |
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Location | |
Country | India |
Ecclesiastical province | Bhopal |
Metropolitan | Bhopal |
Statistics | |
Area | 18,225 km2 (7,037 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2010) 4,396,000 3,398 (0.1%) |
Information | |
Rite | Syro-Malabarese |
Cathedral | St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ujjain |
Patron saint | Saint Paul |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Major Archbishop | Mar Raphael Thattil |
Bishop | Sebastian Vadakel |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Leo Cornelio |
Map | |
Website | |
Website of the Diocese |
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
- It was created on 29 July 1968 as Apostolic Exarchate of Ujjain, on territory split off from the (Latin) Diocese of Indore.
- On 26 February 1977 the Apostolic Exarchate was elevated to Diocese of Ujjain.
Ordinaries
(all Syro-Malabar Rite)
- Apostolic Exarch of Ujjain
- Father John Perumattam, Missionary Society of St Thomas (M.S.T.) (29 July 1968 – 26 February 1977 see below)
- Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Ujjain
- John Perumattam, M.S.T. (see above 26 February 1977 – retired 4 April 1998), died 2011
- Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. (4 April 1998 – ... ), no previous prelature
See also
Sources and external links
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- Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Ujjain on Catholic-Hierarchy
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