The Syro-Malankara Catholic Archeparchy of Trivandrum is an archeparchy 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 Trivandrum, 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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. Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis, Major Archbishop

Major Archbishop

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 of Trivandrum and Catholicos

Catholicos

Catholicos, plural Catholicoi, is a title used for the head of certain churches in some Eastern Christian traditions. The title implies autocephaly and in some cases is borne by the designated head of an autonomous church, in which case the holder might have other titles such as Patriarch...

 of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, currently presides. The seat of the eparchy is at St. Mary's Syro Malankara Catholic Cathedral in
Pattom, Trivandrum,

History

The Archeparchy of Trivandrum was erected in 1932. Its suffragan eparchies and exarchies are those of Marthandom, Mavelikara, Pathanamthitta

Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Pathanamthitta

The Eparchy of Pathanamthitta constitutes the Malankara Syrian Catholic Community in the Vicinity of Pathanamthitta in the Indian State of Kerala. The Diocese came into existence with the consent of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, on 25 January 2010. Most Rev. Yoohanon Mar Chrysostom is the first...

, and Exarchate of the United States

Syro-Malankara Catholic Exarchate in the United States

The Syro-Malankara Catholic Exarchate in the United States is an apostolic exarchate for Syro-Malankara Catholics in the United States of America....

.

Current bishops

The Metropolitan of Trivandrum is Moran Mor Baselios Cleemis, Major Archbishop

Major Archbishop

right|200 px|thumb|Archbishop [[Sviatoslav Shevchuk]], Major Archbishop of Kyiv-HalychIn the Eastern Catholic Churches, major archbishop is a title for an hierarch to whose archiepiscopal see is granted the same jurisdiction in his autonomous particular Church that an Eastern patriarch has in...

 of Trivandrum and Catholicos

Catholicos

Catholicos, plural Catholicoi, is a title used for the head of certain churches in some Eastern Christian traditions. The title implies autocephaly and in some cases is borne by the designated head of an autonomous church, in which case the holder might have other titles such as Patriarch...

of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, appointed in 2007. Auxiliary Bishops Aboon Mor Samuel Irenios Kattukallil and Aboon Mor Thomas Antonios Valiyavilayil, O.I.C. were appointed in 2010.

Statistics

As of 2008, the archeparchy has an estimated 250,477 faithful, in 104 parishes, with 190 diocesan priests, 64 religious priests, 142 religious brothers, 721 religious sisters, and 89 seminarians.

External links

• Archeparchy info from the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church website