Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Puthur


The Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Puthur , the first Syro-Malankara Catholic diocese in India's southern Karnataka, is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Syro-Malankara Catholic Archeparchy of Tiruvalla, which depends on the Major Archbishop of Trivandrum, the head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and with it on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Its episcopal see is the St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral at Noojibalthila, in Kerala's Puttur taluk. Its headquarters are Catholic Bishop's House, Parladka, P.O. Puttur, 574203, Karnataka.
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Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 2,800 Catholics in 25 parishes with 25 priests, 33 lay religious, 6 seminarians. The diocese has 22 churches under it spread across the civil districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Kodagu, Hassan, Chikmagalur, Mandya, Mysore, Shimoga and Chamarajanagar. There are 36 educational and 4 charitable institutions.

History

It was established on 25 January 2010 as Eparchy of Puthur / Puttur / Latin adjective Puthuren, on territory split off from the territory of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Eparchy of Bathery, whose Bishop Geevarghese Divannasios Ottathengil was appointed as its first ordinary. He later resigned on 24 January 2017, due to health problems.

Episcopal Ordinaries

Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Puthur