Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain

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Diocese of Ujjain

Dioecesis Uiiainensis

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Coat of arms
Location
Country India
Ecclesiastical province Bhopal
Metropolitan Bhopal
Statistics
Area18,225 km2 (7,037 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2010)
  • 4,396,000
  • 3,398 (0.1%)
Information
Rite Syro-Malabarese
CathedralSt. Mary’s Cathedral in Ujjain
Patron saint Saint Paul
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Major ArchbishopMar Raphael Thattil
BishopSebastian Vadakel
Metropolitan ArchbishopLeo Cornelio
Map
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Website
Website of the Diocese

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

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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 in central India.

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

Ordinaries

Apostolic Exarch of Ujjain

Sl.NoOrdinaryDesignationYear of appointmentLast year of service
1Father John Perumattam Missionary Society of St Thomas (M.S.T.)Apostolic Exarch29 July 196826 February 1977

Bishops

Sl.NoOrdinaryDesignationYear of appointmentLast year of service
1 John Perumattam Missionary Society of St Thomas (M.S.T.)Bishop26 February 19774 April 1998
2 Sebastian Vadakel Missionary Society of St Thomas (M.S.T.)Bishop4 April 1998Present

See also