Syro-Malabar Diocese of

Shamshabad

India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malabar

Type: Diocese Diocese

Population: 122,510 Catholics (2020)

Statistics: 26 parishes, 87 missions, 70 priests (50 diocesan, 20 religious), 125 lay religious (20 brothers, 105 sisters), 14 seminarians (2020)

Ecclesiastical Province: Ernakulam–Angamaly

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Patron Saint: Saint Thomas, Saint John Paul II

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History

2017.10.10: Established as Diocese of Shamshabad / Shamshabaden(sis) (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)
2020.12: Became suffragan of Ernakulam–Angamaly

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Kukatpally, Telangāna

Present Prelates

Bishop (2017.10.10 – ...):

Bishop Raphael Thattil (66)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Bishop Raphael Thattil (66)
(2017.10.10 – ...)

Bishop of Shamshabad of the Syro-Malabars (India)

To be broken and given

Born:	1956.04.21 (Trichur, India)
Ordained Priest:	1980.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	2010.04.10

Titular Bishop of Buruni (2010.01.18 – 2017.10.10)

Auxiliary Bishop of Trichur of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2010.01.18 – 2017.10.10)

Apostolic Visitator in India outside the proper territory of the Syro-Malabars (2013.12.23 – 2017.10.10)

Bishop of Shamshabad of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2017.10.10 – ...)

as of 2022.08.06

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