Diocese of Ujjain Dioecesis Uiiainensis उज्जैन के सूबा | |
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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 |
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Website | |
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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.