The Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Bathery is an eparchy

Eparchy

Eparchy is an anglicized Greek word , authentically Latinized as eparchia and loosely translating as 'rule over something,' like province, prefecture, or territory, to have the jurisdiction over, it has specific meanings both in politics, history and in the hierarchy of the Eastern Christian...

 of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See...

 in Sulthan Bathery, in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India

India

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. Aboon Joseph Mar Thomas is the current bishop

Metropolitan bishop

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. The seat of the eparchy is at St. Thomas Syro-Malankara Catholic Cathedral in Sulthan Bathery.

History

The eparchy of Bathery was erected in 1978. It is a suffragan eparchy of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Archeparchy of Tiruvalla.

Current bishops

The Metropolitan of Bathery is Aboon Joseph Mar Thomas, appointed in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI.

Statistics

As of 2008, the eparchy has an estimated 25,600 faithful, in 21 parishes and over 100 missions, with 89 diocesan priests, 12 religious priests, 12 religious brothers, 262 religious sisters, and 27 seminarians.

External links

• Eparchy of Bathery Official website
• Eparchy info from the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church website