Diocese of Mississauga, Canada 🇨🇦 (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Continent: North America

Rite: Syro-Malabar

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Mississauga (English) / Mississauguen(sis) (Latin)

Subject to the Major Archbishop

Neighbouring Dioceses: Saint Thomas the Apostle of Chicago (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Thomas

History

2015.08.06: Established as Apostolic Exarchate of Canada (English)
2018.12.22: Promoted as Diocese of Mississauga (English) / Mississauguen(sis) (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2018.12.22 – ...):

Bishop Jose Kalluvelil (70)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Mississauga (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Bishop Jose Kalluvelil (70)
(2018.12.22 – ...)

Bishop of Mississauga of the Syro-Malabars (Canada)

For the glory of God

Born:	1955.11.15 (Thottuva, India)
Ordained Priest:	1984.12.18
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.09.19

Priest of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1984.12.18 – 2015.08.06)

Titular Bishop of Tabalta (2015.08.06 – 2018.12.22)

Apostolic Exarch of Canada of the Syro-Malabars (Canada) (2015.08.06 – 2018.12.22)

Bishop of Mississauga of the Syro-Malabars (Canada) (2018.12.22 – ...)

Apostolic Exarchs of Canada (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Bishop Jose Kalluvelil (70)
(2015.08.06 – 2018.12.22)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Cathedral, Mississauga, Ontario
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (4)

Saint Thomas the Apostle of Chicago (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 26,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 18 parishes, 36 missions

Personnel: 20 priests (18 diocesan, 2 religious), 11 religious (2 brothers, 9 sisters), 11 seminarians

Syro-Malabar Diocese of

Mississauga