Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut

The Diocese of Calicut (

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

Statistics

As of 2015^[update], 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

• 12 June 1923: Established as Diocese of Calicut on territories split off from the
  Diocese of Mangalore and Diocese of Mysore
• On 1949 it gained territory from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pondicherry^[citation needed]
• Lost territories repeatedly: on 31 December 1953 to establish
  Diocese of Sultanpet.^[1][2]

• List of Catholic dioceses in India

References

Sources and External links

• GCatholic, with Google satellite HQ picture - data for all sections
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• diocesan website Archived 13 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine
• Catholic Hierarchy
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11°15′11″N 75°46′27″E / 11.2530°N 75.7741°E / 11.2530; 75.7741