Syro-Malabar Diocese of

Palghat

India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malabar

Type: Diocese

Area: 4,480 km²

Population: 58,675 Catholics (2.1% of 2,818,206 total) (2015)

Statistics: 89 parishes, 39 missions, 199 priests (130 diocesan, 69 religious), 1,207 lay religious (75 brothers, 1,132 sisters), 46 seminarians (2015)

Ecclesiastical Province: Trichur

Neighbouring Dioceses: Trichur (↙)

Depends on: Congregation for the Oriental Churches

Patron Saint: St. Joseph

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History

1974.06.27: Established as Diocese of Palghat / Palakkad / Palghaten(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Trichur)
2010.01.18: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Ramanathapuram

Special Churches

Cathedral: St Raphael’s Cathedral, Palakkad, Kerala

Present Prelates

Bishop (1996.11.11 – ...):	Bishop Jacob Manathodath (72)
Auxiliary Bishop (2020.01.15 – ...):	Bishop-elect Peter Kochupuruckal (55) Titular Bishop of Lares

Ordinaries

Bishops of Palghat (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Bishop Jacob Manathodath (72)
(1996.11.11 – ...)

Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India)

To do what pleases him

Born:	1947.02.22 (India)
Ordained Priest:	1972.11.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1992.11.28

Titular Bishop of Abydus (1992.09.06 – 1996.11.11)

Auxiliary Bishop of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1992.09.06 – 1996.11.11)

Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1996.11.11 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2018.06.22 – 2019.06.27)

Bishop Joseph Irimpen
(1974.06.27 – 1994.12.01)

Born:	1919.02.25 (India)
Ordained Priest:	1950.05.06
Consecrated Bishop:	1974.09.08
Died:	1997.08.23 († 78)

Bishop of Palghat of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1974.06.27 – 1994.12.01)

as of 2020.01.15