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Syro Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Gorakhpur

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Metropolitan
  
Agra

Rite
  
East Syrian Rite

Area
  
19,070 km²

Major archbishop
  
George Alencherry

Denomination
  
Catholic Church

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
India

Established
  
19 June 1984

Sui iuris church
  
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Cathedral
  
St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Gorakhpur

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2009); 17,200,635; 3,230 (0.0%)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agra

Patron saints
  
Thérèse of Lisieux, Saint Joseph

The Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Gorakhpur is an Eastern Catholic eparchy in India, under the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. It was erected by Pope John Paul II in 1984 through the Bull "Ex quo Divinum Concilium". Mar Thomas Thuruthimattam, CST was appointed bishop of Gorakhpur on July 15, 2006. He was ordained bishop on October 1, 2006 and assumed office on the same day.

Former bishops

Mar Dominic Kokkatt

References

Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Gorakhpur Wikipedia