External links
- Archeparchy info from the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church website
- Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum
Major Archeparchy of Thiruvananthapuram Trivandrensis Syrorum Malankarensium | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 217 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic Church |
| Sui iuris church | Syro-Malankara Catholic Church |
| Rite | Syro-Malankara Rite |
| Established | 1932 |
| Patron saint | Saint Peter |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Major Archbishop | Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos |
| Auxiliary Bishops | Mathews Mar Polycarpos |
| Website | |
| catholicate.net | |
The Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Thiruvananthapuram is a Syro-Malankara Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or major archeparchy of the Catholic Church in Thiruvananthapuram, India. Baselios Cleemis, the Major Archbishop-Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, presides over the as of 2020 [update] . The cathedra is at Cathedral of Saint Mary, Pattom, Trivandrum in Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Archeparchy of Thiruvananthapuram is a metropolitan see with five suffragan eparchies.
The Archeparchy of Trivandrum was erected in 1932. Its suffragan eparchies are Marthandom, Mavelikara, Pathanamthitta, Parassala and St. Ephrem of Khadki. [1]
Baselios Cardinal Cleemis, Major Archbishop of Thiruvananthapuram and Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, was elected Major Archbishop of Thiruvananthapuram in 2007.
In 2020 the Archeparchy had an estimated 1,81,400 faithful, in 217 parishes, with 151 diocesan priests, 34 religious priests, 19 religious brothers, 642 religious sisters, and 89 seminarians. [2]
