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Continent: South and East Asia
Rite: Roman (Latin)
Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese
Area: 8,010 km²
Population: 265,000 Catholics (4.0% of 6,621,220 total) (2017)
Statistics: 73 parishes, 2 missions, 276 priests (91 diocesan, 185 religious), 1,538 lay religious (412 brothers, 1,126 sisters), 25 seminarians (2017)
Suffragan Sees: Dindigul, Kottar, Kuzhithurai, Palayamkottai, Sivagangai, Tiruchirapalli, Tuticorin
Neighbouring Dioceses: Vijayapuram (←), Dindigul (↑), Tiruchirapalli (↗), Sivagangai (→), Tuticorin (↓), Palayamkottai (↓)
Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
Patron Saint: St. John de Britto
Present Prelates
Ordinaries
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as of 2019.11.30
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