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Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Puthur

Eastern Catholic eparchy in Karnataka, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Puthur (or - Puttur) (also called Puthur of the Syro-Malankars), the first Syro-Malankara Catholic diocese in India's southern Karnataka, is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Syro-Malankara Catholic Archeparchy of Tiruvalla, which depends on the Major Archbishop of Trivandrum, the head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (Antiochian Rite Eastern Catholic particular church in Syriac and Malayalam languages), and with it on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

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Its episcopal see is the St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral at Noojibalthila, in Kerala's Puttur taluk. Its headquarters are Catholic Bishop's House, Parladka, P.O. Puttur, 574203, Karnataka.[1]

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Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 2,800 Catholics in 25 parishes with 25 priests (17 diocesan, 8 religious), 33 lay religious (8 brothers, 25 sisters), 6 seminarians.[1] The diocese has 22 churches under it spread across the civil districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Kodagu, Hassan, Chikmagalur, Mandya, Mysore, Shimoga and Chamarajanagar. There are 36 educational and 4 charitable institutions.

History

It was established on 25 January 2010 as Eparchy (Diocese) of Puthur / Puttur / Latin adjective Puthuren(sis), on territory split off from the (northern parts of the) territory of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Bathery, whose Bishop Geevarghese Divannasios Ottathengil was appointed as its first ordinary.[1] He later resigned on 24 January 2017, due to health problems.[2]

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all native Indians and Syro-Malankar Rite)

Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Puthur

  • Geevarghese Divannasios Ottathengil (25 January 2010 – 24 January 2017), died 2018; previously Eparch (Bishop) of mother see Bathery of the Syro-Malankars (India) (11 November 1996 – 25 January 2010)
  • George Kalayil (25 August 2017 – present)[1]

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