Girish Mahajan (Editor)

Syro Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Metropolitan
  
Bhopal

Pope
  
Francis

Area
  
18,225 km²

Major archbishop
  
George Alencherry

Rite
  
Syro-Malabarese

Metropolitan Archbishop
  
Leo Cornelio

Country
  
India

Patron saint
  
Paul the Apostle

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 4,396,000 3,398 (0.1%)

Cathedral
  
St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ujjain

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bhopal

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

Contents

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.

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

    • References

    Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA