- Source: Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum
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. The cathedra is at St. Mary's Malankara Syrian Catholic Cathedral in Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The Archeparchy of Thiruvananthapuram is a metropolitan see with four suffragan eparchies.
History
The Archeparchy of Trivandrum was erected in 1932. Its suffragan eparchies are Marthandom, Mavelikara, Pathanamthitta, Parassala and St. Ephrem of Khadki.
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.
Saints and causes for canonisation
Geevarghese Ivanios
References
Seminaries
St. Mary’s Malankara Major Seminary
St. Aloysius Seminary, Thiruvananthapuram
External links
Archeparchy info from the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church website
Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum
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- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
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- List of Catholic dioceses in India
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Cathedral of Saint Mary, Pattom
- Geevarghese Ivanios
- List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
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