Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain

The Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain (Ujjain of the Syro-Malabars) is a Syro-Malabar eparchy (Eastern Catholic) in India, part of the rite-specific the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Syro-Oriental Rite).

It thus depends on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches, but is simultaneously a suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the Latin Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bhopal.

Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Mary's Cathedral, in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh state in central India.

Statistics[]

As per 2014, it pastorally served 4,602 Eastern Catholics (0.1% of 6,253,649 total) on 18,441 km² in 41 parishes and a mission with 93 priests (41 diocesan, 52 religious), 433 lay religious (120 brothers, 313 sisters) and 9 seminarians.

History[]

• It was created on 29 July 1968 as Apostolic Exarchate of Ujjain, on territory split off from the (Latin) Diocese of Indore.
• On 26 February 1977 the Apostolic Exarchate was elevated to Diocese of Ujjain.

Ordinaries[]

(all Syro-Malabar Rite)

Apostolic Exarch of Ujjain

• Father John Perumattam, Missionary Society of St Thomas (M.S.T.) (29 July 1968 – 26 February 1977 see below)

Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Ujjain

• John Perumattam, M.S.T. (see above 26 February 1977 – retired 4 April 1998), died 2011
• Sebastian Vadakel, M.S.T. (4 April 1998 – ... ), no previous prelature

See also[]

• List of Catholic dioceses in India

Sources and external links[]

• GCatholic, with Google satellite photo - data for all sections
• Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Ujjain on Catholic-Hierarchy

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