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

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malankara (Antiochian)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Moovatupuzha / Muvattupuzha / Muvattupuzhen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tiruvalla

Neighbouring Dioceses: Bathery (↑), Tiruvalla (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Mary, Mother of God

History

2002.12.19: Established as Diocese of Moovatupuzha / Muvattupuzha / Muvattupuzhen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Tiruvalla and became suffragan of Trivandrum)
2006.05.15: Became suffragan of Tiruvalla

Present Prelates

Bishop (2019.06.11 – ...):

Bishop Yoohanon Theodosius Kochuthundil (66)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Moovatupuzha (Syro-Malankara Rite)

Bishop Yoohanon Theodosius Kochuthundil (66)
(2019.06.11 – ...)

Bishop of Moovatupuzha of the Syro-Malankara (India)

God’s mercy is sovereign

Born:	1959.04.08 (Puthussery Bhagon, India)
Ordained Priest:	1985.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	2017.09.21

Priest of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1985.12.22 – 2017.08.05)

Titular Bishop of Thuburbo maius (2017.08.05 – 2018.04.10)

Bishop of Curia of the Syro-Malankara (2017.08.05 – 2018.04.10)

Apostolic Visitator in Oceania of the Syro-Malankara (2017.08.05 – 2023.07.15)

Apostolic Visitator in Europe of the Syro-Malankara (2017.08.05 – 2025.09.19)

Coadjutor Bishop of Moovatupuzha of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2018.04.10 – 2019.06.11)

Bishop of Moovatupuzha of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2019.06.11 – ...)

Bishop Abraham Julios Kackanatt (81)
(2008.01.18 – 2019.06.11)

Bishop emeritus of Moovatupuzha of the Syro-Malankara (India)

Born:	1944.06.10 (Kallooppara, India)
Ordained Priest:	1970.10.10
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.02.09

Priest of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1970.10.10 – 2008.01.18)

Bishop of Moovatupuzha of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2008.01.18 – 2019.06.11)

Bishop Thomas Koorilos Chakkalapadickal (67) (later Archbishop)
(2003.01.15 – 2007.03.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India)
Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India
Secretary of Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church

Spread the fragrance of Jesus

Born:	1958.10.19 (Kaddapra Mannar, India)
Ordained Priest:	1985.12.30
Consecrated Bishop:	1997.07.17

Priest of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1985.12.30 – 1997.05.09)

Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Mauretania (1997.05.09 – 2003.01.15)

Auxiliary Bishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India) (1997.05.09 – 2003.01.15)

Bishop of Moovatupuzha of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2003.01.15 – 2007.03.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankara (India) (2007.03.26 – ...)

Secretary of Synod of the Syro-Malankara Church (2013 – ...)

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

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Yoohanon Theodosius Kochuthundil (66) (2018.04.10 – 2019.06.11)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Joseph Cathedral, Muvattupuzha, Kerala

Bathery (↑), Tiruvalla (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 36,000 km²

Population: 15,980 Catholics (0.9% of 1,760,430 total)

Pastoral Centres: 73 parishes

Personnel: 50 priests (diocesan), 91 religious (6 brothers, 85 sisters), 6 seminarians

Syro-Malankara Diocese of

Moovatupuzha