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class="infobox-data">5,893 km<sup>2</sup> (2,275 sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population<br />- Total<br />- Catholics</th><td class="infobox-data">(as of 2004)<br />5,749,275<br />124,664 (2.2%)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data">Catholic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rite</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Syro-Malabar Catholic Church">Syro-Malabar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cathedral</th><td class="infobox-data">Mary Matha Cathedral</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Current leadership</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pope</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Francis</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Major Archbishop</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Raphael_Thattil" title="Raphael Thattil">Raphael Thattil</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bishop</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Remigiose_Inchananiyil" title="Remigiose Inchananiyil">Remigiose Inchananiyil</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Metropolitan Archbishop</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Pamplany" title="Joseph Pamplany">Joseph Pamplany</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #FADA5E;">Map</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Map_of_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery.png/220px-Map_of_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Map_of_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery.png/330px-Map_of_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Map_of_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery.png/440px-Map_of_Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery.png 2x" data-file-width="775" data-file-height="1129" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Eparchy of Thamarassery</b> is an <a href="/wiki/Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Syro-Malabar Catholic Church">Syro-Malabar Catholic Church</a> <a href="/wiki/Eparchy" title="Eparchy">eparchy</a> in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, under the <a href="/wiki/Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Syro-Malabar Catholic Church">Syro-Malabar Catholic Church</a>. It was created on 28 April 1986. On Monday, 18 January 2010, the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church, meeting at Mt. St. Thomas (with the assent of the Holy See) appointed <a href="/wiki/Remigiose_Inchananiyil" title="Remigiose Inchananiyil">Remigiose Inchananiyil</a>, secretary and chancellor of Thamarassery, and judge of the major archiepiscopal tribunal, as the new bishop. <a href="/wiki/Remigius_Inchananiyil" class="mw-redirect" title="Remigius Inchananiyil">Remigius Inchananiyil</a> was consecrated on 8 April 2010. </p><p>The Syro-Malabar Church is governed by the <a href="/wiki/Major_Archbishop_of_Erankulam-Angamaly" class="mw-redirect" title="Major Archbishop of Erankulam-Angamaly">Major Archbishop of Erankulam-Angamaly</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Synod" title="Synod">synod</a> of all bishops of the <i>sui iuris</i> Church, both within and outside of India. </p><p>Eparchy of Thamarassery comes under the Province of Tellicherry. There are several important churches under the Eparchy of Thamarassery. The most prominent among them are St. Thomas Forane Church Koorachudu and <a href="/wiki/Sacred_Heart_Forane_Church_Thiruvambady" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred Heart Forane Church Thiruvambady">Sacred Heart Forane Church Thiruvambady</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Foranes_under_Diocese_of_Thamarassery">Foranes under Diocese of Thamarassery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Foranes under Diocese of Thamarassery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Karuvarakundu Holy Family Church (1972)</li> <li>Kodenchery St.Mary's Church (1949)</li> <li>Koorachundu St. Thomas Church (1947)</li> <li>Malappuram St. Thomas Church (2005)</li> <li>Marudonkara St.Mary's Church (1939)</li> <li>Paroppady St. Antony's Church (1969)</li> <li>Perinthalamanna St. Alphonsa's Church (1995)</li> <li>Thamarassery Mary Matha Cathedral Church (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Heart_Forane_Church_Thiruvambady" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred Heart Forane Church Thiruvambady">Thiruvambady Sacred Heart Church (1944)</a></li> <li>Thottumukkom St. Thomas Church (1960)</li> <li>Vilangad St. Georges Church (1968)</li></ul> <p>Under this 11 Foranes there are 118 parishes, 14 stations also there. Around 30,000 families & 1.30 lakhs members are there total in Diocese. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>P.T. SEBASTIAN, The Sociology of Christian Migration to Malabar 1930 - 1980, (thesis), University of Calicut, Kozhikode-Kerala 2002.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syro-Malabar_Catholic_Eparchy_of_Thamarassery&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtmsm.html">Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Thamarassery at Catholic-Hierarchy</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071017210459/http://hindu.com/2007/10/17/stories/2007101753490600.htm">[1]</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" 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