Diocese of Palghat, India (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malabar

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Palghat / Palakkad / Palghaten(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Trichur

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Joseph

History

1974.06.27: Established as Diocese of Palghat / Palakkad / Palghaten(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Trichur and became suffragan of Ernakulam)
1995.05.18: Became suffragan of Trichur
2010.01.18: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Ramanathapuram

Present Prelates

Bishop (2022.01.15 – ...):

Bishop Peter Kochupuruckal (60)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Palghat (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Bishop Peter Kochupuruckal (60)
(2022.01.15 – ...)

Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India)

Not my will, by thine by done

Born:	1964.05.29 (Marangoli, India)
Ordained Priest:	1990.12.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2020.06.18

Priest of Palai of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1990.12.29 – 2020.01.15)

Titular Bishop of Lares (2020.01.15 – 2022.01.15)

Auxiliary Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2020.01.15 – 2022.01.15)

Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2022.01.15 – ...)

Bishop Jacob Manathodath (77)
(1996.11.11 – 2022.01.15)

Bishop emeritus of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India)

To do what pleases him

Born:	1947.02.22 (Kodamthuruth, India)
Ordained Priest:	1972.11.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1992.11.28

Titular Bishop of Abydus (1992.09.06 – 1996.11.11)

Auxiliary Bishop of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1992.09.06 – 1996.11.11)

Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1996.11.11 – 2022.01.15)

Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2018.06.22 – 2019.06.27)

Bishop Joseph Irimpen
(1974.06.27 – 1994.12.01)

Born:	1919.02.25 (India)
Ordained Priest:	1950.05.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1974.09.08
Died:	1997.08.23 († 78)

Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1974.06.27 – 1994.12.01)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Peter Kochupuruckal (60) (2020.01.15 – 2022.01.15)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St Raphael’s Cathedral, Palakkad, Kerala

Trichur (↙)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 4,480 km²

Population: 57,845 Catholics (1.7% of 3,426,773 total)

Pastoral Centres: 89 parishes, 39 missions

Personnel: 222 priests (138 diocesan, 84 religious), 1,570 religious (86 brothers, 1,484 sisters), 36 seminarians

Syro-Malabar Diocese of

Palghat