Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Calicut

Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut

Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut

Roman Catholic diocese in Kerala & Puducherry, India


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.

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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

See also


References

  1. "Web Translator".

11.2530°N 75.7741°E / 11.2530; 75.7741


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