Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Tellicherry

Archdiocese of Tellicherry Archidioecesis Tellicherriensis
Location
Country	India
Statistics
Area	4,958 km2 (1,914 sq mi)[1]
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2020[1]) 3,814,247 274,460[1] (7.2%)
Parishes	254[1]
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Rite	East Syriac Rite
Established	31 December 1953; 70 years ago (31 December 1953)
Cathedral	St Joseph's Cathedral in Palissery, Thalassery
Patron saint	Saint Joseph[1]
Secular priests	475 (304 diocesan, 171 religious)[1]
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Major Archbishop	Raphael Thattil
Archeparch	Joseph Pamplany
Bishops emeritus	George Njaralakatt George Valiamattam
Website
archdioceseoftellicherry.org
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The Archeparchy of Tellicherry (also anglicized as the Archdiocese of Thalassery) is a Syro-Malabar Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archeparchy of the Catholic Church in India. The boundaries of the Thalassery ecclesiastical province were extended to include Mangalore, Chickmangalore, Mysore, Shimoga and Ootty as there were settlers in the neighbouring States. The diocese covers an area of 18,000 km² and a Catholic population of 273,826. Since 2022, Joseph Pamplany is the Metropolitan Archbishop.^[2]

The ecclesiastical province came into existence on 31 December 1953 through the papal bull Ad Christi Ecclesiam Regendam issued by Pope Pius XII. The boundaries of the new diocese were the same as those of the Latin Church Diocese of Calicut. Later, as Syro-Malabar Catholics migrated even to the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the boundaries were extended to the present Latin Diocese of Mangalore, Chickmangalur, Mysore, Shimoga, and Ootacamund by a decree of the Holy See on April 29, 1955.