Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Ujjain

Diocese of Ujjain Dioecesis Uiiainensis उज्जैन के सूबा
Coat of arms
Location
Country	India
Ecclesiastical province	Bhopal
Metropolitan	Bhopal
Statistics
Area	18,225 km2 (7,037 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 4,396,000 3,398 (0.1%)
Information
Rite	Syro-Malabarese
Cathedral	St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ujjain
Patron saint	Saint Paul
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Major Archbishop	Mar Raphael Thattil
Bishop	Sebastian Vadakel
Metropolitan Archbishop	Leo Cornelio
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

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