Syro-Malabar Diocese of

Ujjain UCA 𝐖

India India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malabar

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Ujjain / Uiiainen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Bhopal

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Paul of Tarsus

History

Present Prelates

Bishop (1998.04.04 – ...):Bishop Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. (72)Bishop Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. (72)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Bishop Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. (72)Bishop Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. (72)
(1998.04.04 – ...)

Bishop of Ujjain of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Born:1952.10.07 (Vilakumadam, India)
Ordained Priest:1979.04.09
Consecrated Bishop:1998.09.08

Bishop of Ujjain of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1998.04.04 – ...)

Bishop John Perumattam, M.S.T.
(1977.02.26 – 1998.04.04)

Born:1921.11.03 (India)
Ordained Priest:1951.03.11
Consecrated Bishop:1977.05.15
Died:2011.06.18 († 89)

Apostolic Exarch of Ujjain of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1968.07.29 – 1977.02.26)

Bishop of Ujjain of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1977.02.26 – 1998.04.04)

Apostolic Exarchs of Ujjain (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Fr. John Perumattam, M.S.T. (later Bishop)
(1968.07.29 – 1977.02.26)

(see above)

Special Churches

Jhabua (↙), Bhopal (→), Indore (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 18,441 km²

Population: 4,550 Catholics (0.1% of 6,600,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 42 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 96 priests (45 diocesan, 51 religious), 387 religious (108 brothers, 279 sisters), 15 seminarians

Population

Pastoral Centres

Priests

Deacons

Religious

Seminarians

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