Eparchy of Battery
Batterien(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Syro-Malankara Catholic Church · Battery, India
Syro-Malankara Catholic eparchy based at Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad, Kerala, India, created in 1978 by bifurcation of the Diocese of Thiruvalla and formally inaugurated on 2 February 1979. It is a suffragan of the Syro-Malankara Archeparchy of Tiruvalla. Its seat is St. Thomas Malankara Catholic Cathedral in Bathery.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
- Erected
- 28 October 1978
- Latin
- Batterien(sis)
- Patron
- São Tomé
- Annuario code
- 001000856
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 25,600
- Population
- 21,273,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 82
- Catholics per priest
- 312
- Extent
- 67,482 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.4
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Joseph Mar Thomas
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Thomas Malankara Catholic Cathedral, Bathery stands in Battery, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Tiruvalla
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Tiruvalla.
The sees of this province:
- Archeparchy of TiruvallaTiruvalla
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
At Sulthan Bathery in Kerala, India, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church maintains the Eparchy of Bathery. Its seat is St. Thomas Syro-Malankara Catholic Cathedral in Sulthan Bathery, and as of 2024 the bishop was Aboon Joseph Mar Thomas.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Catholic Bishop’s House, Sulthan Bathery-673592, Wayanad Dt., Kerala, India
- Telephone
- [04936]220.207
- dmsbathery@gmail.com
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.