Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum

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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 since 2020Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".. 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.

History

The Archeparchy of Trivandrum was erected in 1932. Its suffragan eparchies are Marthandom, Mavelikara, Pathanamthitta, Parassala and St. Ephrem of Khadki.[1]

Major Archbishop-Catholicos

Baselios Cardinal Cleemis, Major Archbishop of Thiruvananthapuram and Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, was elected Major Archbishop of Thiruvananthapuram in 2007.

Statistics

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]

Saints and causes for canonisation

References

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Seminaries

External links

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