Eparchy of Sagar
Sagaren(sis)
Suffragan eparchy · Syro-Malabar Church · Sagar, India
Syro-Malabar Catholic eparchy in Madhya Pradesh, India, established as an apostolic exarchate in 1968 from Latin-rite territory of the Archdiocese of Bhopal (the Sagar, Raisen, and Vidisha districts) and elevated to eparchy in 1977. It is a suffragan of the Archeparchy of Ujjain, with St. Theresa's Cathedral in Sagar Cantonment as its seat, serving about 3,400 Catholics (2010).
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Erected
- 29 July 1968
- Latin
- Sagaren(sis)
- Patron
- St. Therese of Lisieux
- Annuario code
- 001002793
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 3,361
- Population
- 4,907,000
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 0.1%
- Priests
- 74
- Catholics per priest
- 45
- Extent
- 39,020 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
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
- Mar James Athikalam, MST
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. Theresa's Cathedral, Sagar Cantonment stands in Sagar, 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 Ujjain (Syro-Malabar)
A suffragan of Archeparchy of Ujjain.
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Sagar is an Eastern Catholic eparchy of central India belonging to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (of the Chaldean or Syro-Oriental Rite, led by the Major Archbishop), a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Ujjain. First created as a missionary jurisdiction in 1968, it was promoted to a diocese in 1977 through the papal bull Divina Verba of Pope Paul VI. St. Theresa's Cathedral in Saga(u)r is its cathedral episcopal see.
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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.