Diocese of Bathery, India 🇮🇳 (Syro-Malankara Rite)

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malankara (Antiochian)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Bathery / Batheri / Battery / Batterien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tiruvalla

Neighbouring Dioceses: Puthur (↖), Moovatupuzha (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Thomas

History

1978.10.28: Established as Diocese of Bathery / Batheri / Battery / Batterien(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Tiruvalla and became suffragan of Trivandrum)
2006.05.15: Became suffragan of Tiruvalla
2010.01.25: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Puthur

Present Prelates

Bishop (2010.01.25 – ...):

Bishop Joseph Thomas Konnath (73)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Bathery (Syro-Malankara Rite)

Bishop Joseph Thomas Konnath (73)
(2010.01.25 – ...)

Bishop of Bathery of the Syro-Malankara (India)

Born:	1952.05.13 (Vadasserika, India)
Ordained Priest:	1978.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2005.02.19

Priest of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1978.12.22 – 2005.01.05)

Titular Bishop of Sicilibba (2005.01.05 – 2010.01.25)

Auxiliary Bishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2005.01.05 – 2010.01.25)

Apostolic Visitator in North America of the Syro-Malankara (2005.01.05 – 2010.01.25)

Apostolic Visitator in Europe of the Syro-Malankara (2005.01.05 – 2010.01.25)

Bishop of Bathery of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2010.01.25 – ...)

Second Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2022.11.11 – 2026.02.07)

Bishop Geevarghese Divannasios Ottathengil
(1996.11.11 – 2010.01.25)

Born:	1950.11.01 (Kunnanthanam, India)
Ordained Priest:	1978.04.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1997.02.05
Died:	2018.01.16 (Tiruvalla, India † 67)

Bishop of Bathery of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1996.11.11 – 2010.01.25)

Bishop of Puthur of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2010.01.25 – 2017.01.24)

Bishop Cyril Baselios Malancharuvil, O.I.C. (later Major Archbishop)
(1978.10.28 – 1995.11.06)

Born:	1935.08.16 (Pandalam, India)
Ordained Priest:	1960.10.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1978.12.28
Died:	2007.01.18 (Trivandrum, India † 71)

Superior General of Order of the Imitation of Christ (1974 – 1978.10.28)

Bishop of Bathery of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1978.10.28 – 1995.11.06)

President of Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church (1995 – 2007.01.18)

Metropolitan of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1995.11.06 – 2005.02.10)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2000 – 2004)

Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2005.02.10 – 2007.01.18)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Thomas Cathedral, Sulthan Bathery, Kerala

Puthur (↖), Moovatupuzha (↓)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 67,482 km²

Population: 40,300 Catholics (0.2% of 21,273,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 117 parishes, 5 missions

Personnel: 82 priests (70 diocesan, 12 religious), 300 religious (12 brothers, 288 sisters), 19 seminarians

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