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Continent: South and East Asia
Rite: Roman (Latin)
Type: Diocese
Area: 6,103 km²
Population: 135,257 Catholics (3.9% of 3,436,450 total) (2020)
Statistics: 56 parishes, 1 mission, 143 priests (86 diocesan, 57 religious), 537 lay religious (162 brothers, 375 sisters), 13 seminarians (2020)
Ecclesiastical Province: Madurai
Neighbouring Dioceses: Kuzhithurai (↙), Neyyattinkara (↙), Punalur (←), Vijayapuram (↖), Madurai (↑), Tuticorin (→), Kottar (↓)
Depends on: Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
Patron Saint: Saint Francis Xavier
Present Prelates
Ordinaries
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as of 2022.06.30
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