The Diocese of Quilon is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church based in the southern Indian city of Kollam. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Trivandrum. The Diocese of Quilon covers an area of 1,950 km2 that contains a population of some 4.8 million. At least 4.8% of the people in the area are Catholic.
Richard Edmund Pates is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Pates served as bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines in Iowa from 2008 to 2019 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota from 2000 to 2008.
Agostino Vallini is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He has been a cardinal since 2006. From 2008 to 2017 he served as Vicar General of Rome. He is also the Archpriest emeritus of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.
Joseph Anthony Pepe is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second bishop of the Diocese of Las Vegas in Nevada from 2001 to 2018.
Rufin Anthony was a Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop.
William Michael Mulvey is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi in Texas since 2010.
David Dennis Kagan is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Bismarck in North Dakota since 2011.
Robert McGuckin is a retired Catholic who was the Bishop of Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia, from July 2012 until his retirement in 2023.
James Francis Checchio is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic church. Checchio served as rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome from 2005 until 2016. On March 8, 2016, Pope Francis named Checchio as bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen in New Jersey to succeed Bishop Paul Bootkoski. Checchio was consecrated as bishop of Metuchen on May 3, 2016.
Stanley Roman is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Quilon, India, from 2001 to 2018. He also chaired the education committee of the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council.
Philip Anthony Egan is a prelate of the Catholic Church and serves as the eighth Bishop of Portsmouth.
The Infant Jesus Cathedral is a historic Roman Catholic church established by Portuguese during 1614, situated at Tangasseri in the city of Quilon (Kollam), India. It is now the cathedral i.e the Seat of the Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the ancient and first catholic diocese of India. The Church remains as a memento of the Portuguese rule of old Quilon city.
Sebastian Francis is a Malaysian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as the bishop of the Diocese of Penang since 2011. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of Cardinal on 30 September 2023. He is the second cardinal from Malaysia after Anthony Soter Fernandez.
Antony Pappusamy is Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madurai in India.
Bishop Paul Simick is a prelate serving as Vicar Apostolic of Nepal and the Titular Bishop of Maturba.
Stephen Antony Pillai mononymously known as Stephen is the Indian bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tuticorin.
Austin Anthony Vetter is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Helena in Montana since 2019.
Jerome Maria Fernandez was the first Indian bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, India. He is the founder of the Missionary Sisters of St.Therese of Infant Jesus (MSST). He was declared Servant of God on February 24, 2019 by Kollam Bishop Paul Antony Mullassery at Infant Jesus Cathedral, Thangassery.
Mar Thomas Tharayil( born 2 February 1972) is the auxiliary bishop of Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Changanacherry. He was conferred as the auxiliary bishop by Mar Joseph Perumthottam on 23 April 2017.
Thomas W. Powers is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut. On March 30, 2022, it was announced that he will succeed Fr. Peter Harman as the twenty-fourth rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
