Archeparchy of Kottayam
Kottayamen(sis)
Eastern metropolitan see · Syro-Malabar Church · Kottayam, India
The Archeparchy of Kottayam is a Syro-Malabar Catholic archeparchy serving the Knanaya community in India. Erected as an apostolic vicariate in 1911 and raised to an archeparchy in 2005, it is a metropolitan see rather than a Latin diocese as labeled.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Erected
- 1911
- Latin
- Kottayamen(sis)
- Patron
- Sacred Heart of Jesus; Pope St. Pius X
- Annuario code
- 001001901
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 190,985
- Population
- 4,374,310
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 4.4%
- Priests
- 363
- Catholics per priest
- 526
- Extent
- 560,665 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
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
- Archbishop
- Mathew Moolakkattu
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
Christ the King Cathedral, Kottayam stands in Kottayam, 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 Kottayam
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
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