Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut

Diocese of Calicut
Dioecesis Calicutensis
Location
Country  India
Ecclesiastical province Verapoly
Metropolitan Verapoly
Statistics
Area 12,505 km2 (4,828 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2006)
10,061,127
38,092 (0.4%)
Parishes 41
Information
Rite Latin Rite
Cathedral Mother of God Cathedral in Kozhikode
Patron saint St Francis Xavier
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Varghese Chakkalakal
Metropolitan Archbishop Joseph Kalathiparambil
Vicar General Thomas Panackal
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut (Latin: Calicuten(sis)) is a suffragan diocese Latin rite in the Ecclesiastical province of Verapoly in Kerala state, southern India, yet it depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Its cathedral episcopal see is Mother of God Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady, in the city of Kozhikode (Calicut).

Statistics

As per 2015, it pastorally served 48,250 Catholics (0.6% of 8,059,057 total population) on 8,036 km² in 41 parishes and 3 missions with 132 priests (57 diocesan, 75 religious), 837 lay religious (127 brothers, 710 sisters) and 12 seminarians.

History

On May 15, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed as the sixth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut (area 12,505; population: 10,453,000; Catholics: 50,201; priests: 125; religious: 833), Bishop Varghese Chakkalakal, who until then had been the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kannur (based in Kannur), and simultaneously appointed him as the Apostolic Administrator of the vacant see (sede vacante) of his previous Diocese, Kannur. Bishop Varghese Chakkalakal was born in Malapallipuram, located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kottapuram (based in Kottapuram), on February 7, 1953. He completed his philosophical and theological studies at St. Joseph's Seminary in Mangalore. Bishop Chakkalakal was ordained to the presbyterate for the Diocese of Calicut on April 2, 1981. After Ordination, he was: Assistant Pastor in the Parish of Lourdu Matha, Pallikunnu (1981-1982); Assistant Pastor in the Parish of San Antonio, in Pakkom (1982-1984); a student at St. Joseph's Pontifical Institute, in Alwaye (1984-1986); Assistant Pastor of three parishes: Chalil, West Hill, Ezhimala (1986-1987); a student at the Pontifical Urbaniana University at the Vatican, where he earned a degree in Canon Law (1987-1991); and as a Pastor in Perinthalmanna and Chali (1991-1992). Since 1992, he was a Professor of Canon Law and Moral Theology at St. Joseph's Seminary, Mangalore. On November 5, 1998, he was appointed the first Bishop of Kannur by Pope John Paul II, and received his episcopal consecration on February 7, 1999.[1][2]

Episcopal Ordinaries

(all Latin Rite)

Suffragan Bishops of Calicut
  • Paolo Charles Perini, Jesuits (S.J.) (born Italy) (June 12, 1923 – death June 28, 1932); previously Bishop of Mangalore (India) (1910.08.17 – 1923.06.12), remaining Apostolic Administrator of Mangalore (1923 – 1928)
  • Leone Proserpio, S.J. (born Italy) (December 2, 1937 – death September 8, 1945)
  • Aldus Maria Patroni, S.J. (first native Indian incumbent) (April 8, 1948 – retired June 7, 1980), died 1988
  • Maxwell Valentine Noronha (June 7, 1980 – retired April 19, 2002), died 2018
  • Joseph Kalathiparambil (April 19, 2002 – 22 February 2011); next Secretary (second-in-command) of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants (2011.02.22 – 2016.10.31) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Verapoly (India) (2016.10.31 – ...)
  • Varghese Chakkalakal (15 May 2012 - ...), also Secretary General of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (2013.08.17 – 2017.02.06); previously Bishop of Kannur (India) (1998.11.05 – 2012.05.15), remaining Apostolic Administrator of Kannur (2012.05.15 – 2014.02.01).

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a=http%3A%2F%2Fpress.catholica.va%2Fnews_services%2Fbulletin%2Fnews%2F29197.php%3Findex%3D29197%26lang%3Den
  2. ↑ http://www.news.va/en/news/other-pontifical-acts-171

Coordinates: 11°15′11″N 75°46′27″E / 11.2530°N 75.7741°E / 11.2530; 75.7741

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