Directory - 2013 Priests : 182 Religious Priests : 86 Women Religious : 1399 3
II. ARCHEPARCHY OF TELLICHERRY SUFFRAGANS : BELTHANGADY, BHADRAVATHY MANANTHAVADY, MANDYA THAMARASSERY PATRON : ST. JOSEPH The eparchy of Tellicherry, was erected by the Bull ‘Ad Christi Ecclesiam Regendam’ dated 31st December 1953 of His Holiness Pope Pius XII of happy memory, as a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Ernakulam, for the Catholics of the Syro Malabar Church who migrated to Malabar from the old Syro Malabar eparchy of erstwhile Travancore and Cochin States. The boundaries of the new eparchy were the same as those of the Latin Diocese of Calicut. But later, as Catholics of Syro- Malabar Church migrated even to the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the boundaries were extended to the present Latin dioceses of Mangalore, Chickmagalur, Mysore, Shimoga and Ootacamund by a decree of the Holy See dated 29th April, 1955. 1. BIFURCATIONS 1. MANANTHAVADY The eparchy was bifurcated and the new eparchy of Manathavady formed on the 1st of March 1973 by the Papal Bull “Quanta Gloria Orientales Ecclesiae”. The territory of the new eparchy extends to the districts of Wayanad, Shimoga, Chickmagalur, Hassan, Mandya, Mysore and Nilgiris. Area : 13,036 sq. km. Catholic Population : 1,74,020 Parishes & Mission Stations : 166 Priests : 218 Religious Priests : 28 Women Religious : 1325 2. THAMARASSERY By the Papal Bull ‘Constant Non Mode Eparchiam Tellicheriensis’ the eparchy was again bifurcated on 28th April, 1986 and the new eparchy of Thamarassery formed comprising the districts of Calicut and Malappuram. Area : 5,893 sq. km. Catholic Population : 1,27,080 Parishes & Mission Stations : 139 Archeparchy 35 Directory - 2013 Priests : 182 Religious Priests : 86 Women Religious : 1399 3.
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