Diocese of Tiruchirapalli
Tiruchirapolitan(us)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Tiruchirapalli, India
Latin-rite diocese in Tamil Nadu, India, with roots in the 1836 Apostolic Vicariate of Madura and Coromandel Coast; erected as a diocese in 1886, known as Trichinopoly from 1887, and renamed Tiruchirapalli in 1950. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Madurai, seated at St Mary's Cathedral (Our Lady of Health) in Tiruchirappalli.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 21 October 1950
- Latin
- Tiruchirapolitan(us)
- Patron
- Imaculada Conceição
- Annuario code
- 001003233
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 208,990
- Population
- 2,156,765
- Catholic shareof the people living within its bounds
- 9.7%
- Priests
- 292
- Catholics per priest
- 716
- Extent
- 5,198 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 40
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
- Bishop
- Savarimuthu Arokiaraj
- Born
- 24 October 1954
- Birthplace
- Lalapettai
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 Mary's Cathedral (Our Lady of Health), Tiruchirappalli stands in Tiruchirapalli, 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 Madurai
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Madurai.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of MaduraiMadurai
- Diocese of DindigulDindigul
- Diocese of KottarKottar
- Diocese of KuzhithuraiKuzhithurai
- Diocese of PalayamkottaiPalayamkottai
- Diocese of SivagangaiSivagangai
- Diocese of TuticorinTuticorin
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Tiruchirapalli, also called Trichy, is the seat of this diocese (Latin: Tiruchirapolitan(us)) in the ecclesiastical province of Madurai in India. Its episcopal seat is St. Mary's Cathedral, Tiruchirappalli, known as well as the Cathedral of the Mother of Good Health.
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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.