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Diocese of Mananthavady

Rite:

Syro-Malabar

Population:

813224

Status:

Diocese

Catholics:

171200

Founded:

01-Mar-73

Diocesan Priests:

213

Total area:

27120 Sq. km

Religious Priests:

Province:

Tellicherry

Religious Sisters:

1486

Region:

Kerala

Seminarians:

Patron:

Blessed Virgin Mary

Languages:

?Malayalam Kannada Tamil and English.?

Civil States:

Kerala: Wayanad Nilgiris Shimoga Mandya HassanChamarajnagar Chickmagalore and Mysore.

Contact Diocese Office :

Bishop's House Post Box No. 1 Mananthavady 670 645. KERALA.

Telephone 1:

04935-24 07 35 24 07 45 / 24 02 65

Fax:

24 02 65

E-Mail Office:

bphmtdy@gmail.com

Website:

diocesemdy.org

Most Rev. Jose Porunnedom, Bishops of Mananthavady

Name:

Most Rev. Jose Porunnedom

Designation:

Bishops

Canonical Possession:

2004-

Telephone (P):

E-mail (P):

Other Present & Retired Ordinaries of the Diocese of Mananthavady

Bishops Name	Designation	Period
	Aux.Bishop	2022-

Pilgrim Centres in theDiocese of Mananthavady

Ecclesiastical Institutions

Social / Charitable Institutions / Care Centres

Educational Institutions

Parishes:

145

Hospitals:

Degree Colleges:

Major Seminaries:

Orphanages:

Technical Training Centres:

Minor Seminaries:

Special Schools:

High Schools:

Monastries:

106

Crèches:

Lower Primary Schools:

Convents:

239

Counselling Centres:

Presses & Media Centres:

Formation Houses:

Social Centres:

Professional Colleges:

Retreat Centres:

Dispensaries / Clinics:

Parallel Colleges:

Physically Challenged:

Higher Secondary :

Boarding Houses:

Upper Primary Schools:

HIV / AIDS Centres:

Nurseries/Pre-Primary :

De-addiction Centres:

Aged & Destitute:

History of the Diocese of Mananthavady

His Holiness Pope Paul VI by the Bull "Quanta Gloria" of March 1 1973 bifurcated the vast diocese of Tellicherry and erected the diocese of Mananthavady. The diocese comprised of the civil districts of Wayanad in Kerala the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu and the districts of Shimoga Chikmangalore Hassan Mandya and Mysore in Karnataka. Mar Jacob Thoomkuzhy was consecrated as the first Bishop of Mananthavady on May 1 1973.

On December 31 1975 by a decree of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches dated December 4 1975 ten parishes of the diocese of Tellicherry in the civil districts of Kannur and Kozhikode (at present Malappuram) in Kerala were added to the diocese.

Mananthavady has an area of approximately 48250 sq. kms. and a population of 164823 Syrian Catholics. On June 7 1995 Mar Jacob Thoomkuzhy was transferred as the bishop Thamarassery. And the then Proto-Synchellus Msgr. Joseph Kaniamattamwas appointed as the Administrator of the diocese on July 27 1995. On January 26 1997 Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Pothanamuzhy was consecrated as the second bishop of the diocese.

Prelates of the Diocese of Mananthavady

Bishops Name	Prelate's Status	Period	Bishops Name	Prelate's Status	Period
		2003-2004		Bishop	1997-2003
	Diocesan Administrator	1995-1996		Bishop	1973-1995