Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chanda#History
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{{Infobox diocese
| jurisdiction = Eparchy
| name = Chanda
| local = चांदा च्या बिशपच्या अधिकारातील प्रदेश
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| country = {{flag|India}}
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| metropolitan = Nagpur
| province = Nagpur
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| area_km2 = 32,233
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| population = 3,764,000
| population_as_of = 2009
| catholics = 14,757
| catholics_percent = 0.4
| parishes = 6
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| denomination = Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
| rite = East Syriac Rite
| established = 26 February 1977
| cathedral = Cathedral of St Thomas the Apostle in Ballarpur
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| patron = St Thomas the Apostle
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| major_archbishop = Mar Raphael Thattil
| bishop = Mar Ephrem Nariculam
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| metro_archbishop = Elias Gonsalves
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| website = [http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/diocese_details.php?id=7 Website of the Eparchy]
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The Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chanda is an eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the East Syriac Rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, yet suffragan of the Latin Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur.
Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Thomas Cathedral, in Ballarpur, in India's Maharashtra state.
History
- It was created on 29 July 1968 as Apostolic Exarchate of Chanda, a pre-diocesan Eastern Catholic missionary jurisdiction, on then Latin territories, split off from its present Metropolitan, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur, and from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amravati.
- Promoted as Eparchy of Chanda on 26 February 1977 by the Bull Nostra Ipsorum of Pope Paul VI, promoting its Exarch to become the first Eparch (bishop).
- Lost territory on 23 June 1999 to establish the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Adilabad (a suffragan of the Latin Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hyderabad)
Ordinaries
;Apostolic Exarch of Chanda
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpalaj.html Januarius Paul Palathuruthy], Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (C.M.I.) ( July 1968 – 26 February 1977 see below)
;Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Chanda
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpalaj.html Januarius Palathuruthy], C.M.I. (see above, 26 February 1977 – retired 20 April 1990)
- Mar [http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/bishop.php?id=10 Vijay Anand Nedumpuram], C.M.I. (20 April 1990 – retired 31 July 2014), previously Prior General of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (1985 – 1990.04.20)
- Mar Ephrem Nariculam (31 July 2014 – ...), of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, previously Chaplain of the Syro-Malabar Community in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Coordinator of Priestly Formation at a Seminary and as a Lecturer in Theology in the city.{{Cite web |url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/07/31/0547/01207.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=31 July 2014 |archive-date=9 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809200537/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/07/31/0547/01207.html |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.thesyromalabarchurch.org/chanda.htm Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chanda]
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dcdsm.html Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chanda] at Catholic-Hierarchy
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Category:Syro-Malabar Catholic dioceses
Category:Christian organizations established in 1977