Diocese of Calicut

Dioecesis Calicutensis

കോഴിക്കോട് രൂപത
Location
CountryIndia
Ecclesiastical provinceVerapoly
Statistics
Area12,505 km2 (4,828 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
10,061,127
38,092 (0.4%)
Parishes41
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
CathedralMother of God Cathedral in Kozhikode
Patron saintSt Francis Xavier
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopVarghese Chakkalakal
Metropolitan ArchbishopJoseph Kalathiparambil
Vicar GeneralThomas Panackal
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Calicut (Latin: Dioecesis Calicuten(sis)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in India. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Verapoly but depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Its cathedral is Mother of God Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady, in the episcopal see of Kozhikode (Calicut).

Statistics

As of 2015, it pastorally served 48,250 Catholics (0.6% of 8,059,057 total population) on 8,036 km² in 41 parishes and 3 missions with 132 priests (57 diocesan, 75 religious), 837 lay religious (127 brothers, 710 sisters) and 12 seminarians.

History

Episcopal Ordinaries

Suffragan Bishops of Calicut
  • Paolo Charles Perini, Jesuits (S.J.) (born Italy) (12 June 1923 – death 28 June 1932); previously Bishop of Mangalore (India) (17 August 1910 – 12 June 1923), remaining Apostolic Administrator of Mangalore (1923 – 1928)
  • Leone Proserpio, S.J. (born Italy) (2 December 1937 – death 8 September 1945)
  • Aldus Maria Patroni, S.J. (first native Indian incumbent) (8 April 1948 – retired 7 June 1980), died 1988
  • Maxwell Valentine Noronha (7 June 1980 – retired 19 April 2002), died 2018
  • Joseph Kalathiparambil (19 April 2002 – 22 February 2011); next Secretary (second-in-command) of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants (22 February 2011 – 31 October 2016) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Verapoly (India) (31 October 2016 – ...)
  • Varghese Chakkalakal (15 May 2012 - ...), also Secretary General of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (17 August 2013 – 6 February 2017); previously Bishop of Kannur (India) (5 November 1998 – 15 May 2012), remaining Apostolic Administrator of Kannur (15 May 2012 – 1 February 2014).

See also

References

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  2. http://www.news.va/en/news/other-pontifical-acts-171

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