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Syro Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chanda

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Metropolitan
  
Nagpur

Rite
  
East Syrian Rite

Area
  
32,233 km²

Patron saint
  
Thomas the Apostle

Parish
  
6

Parishes
  
6

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
India

Established
  
26 February 1977

Denomination
  
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of St Thomas the Apostle in Ballarpur

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2009); 3,764,000; 14,757 (0.4%)

The Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chanda is an eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the East Syrian Rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, yet suffragan of the Latin Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur.

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Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Thomas Cathedral, in Ballarpur, in India's Maharashtra state.

History

  • It was created on 29 July 1968 as Apostolic Exarchate of Chanda, a pre-diocesan Eastern Catholic missionary jurisdiction, on then Latin territories, split off from its present Metropolitan, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur, and from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amravati.
  • Promoted as Eparchy of Chanda on 26 February 1977 by the Bull Nostra Ipsorum of Pope Paul VI, promoting its Exarch to become the first Eparch (bishop).
  • Lost territory on 23 June 1999 to establish the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Adilabad (a suffragan of the Latin Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hyderabad)

    • Ordinaries

    Apostolic Exarch of Chanda
  • Januarius Paul Palathuruthy, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (C.M.I.) ( July 1968 – 26 February 1977 see below)
    • Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Chanda
  • Januarius Palathuruthy, C.M.I. ('see above 26 February 1977 – retired 1990.04.20)
  • Mar Vijay Anand Nedumpuram, C.M.I. (1990.04.20 – retired 2014.07.31), previously Prior General of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (1985 – 1990.04.20)
  • Mar Ephrem Nariculam (2014.07.31 – ...), of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, previously Chaplain of the Syro-Malabar Community in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Coordinator of Priestly Formation at a Seminary and as a Lecturer in Theology in the city.

    • References

    Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chanda Wikipedia
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