The Diocese of Calicut ( la, Dioecesis Calicuten(sis)) is a

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in the

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but depends on the missionary

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is Mother of God Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady, in the

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Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second la ...

(Calicut).

Statistics

, 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

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and Diocese of Mysore * On 1949 it gained territory from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pondicherry * Lost territories repeatedly : on 31 December 1953 to establish

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, on 1998.11.05 to establish

Diocese of Kannur Pope John Paul II created the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kannur in the Ecclesiastical Province of Verapoly in India by bifurcating the Diocese of Calicut on 9 December 1998. The new Diocese consists of the Latin Catholics of Malabar residing in ...

, on 28 December 2013 to establish

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Episcopal Ordinaries

;''Suffragan Bishops of Calicut'' *

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(S.J.) (born Italy) (12 June 1923 – death 28 June 1932); previously Bishop of

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(India) (17 August 1910 – 12 June 1923), remaining

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of Mangalore (1923 – 1928) * Leone Proserpio, S.J. (born Italy) (2 December 1937 – death 8 September 1945) * Aldus Maria Patroni, S.J. (first native Indian incumbent) (8 April 1948 – retired 7 June 1980), died 1988 *

Maxwell Valentine Noronha Maxwell Valentine Noronha (14 February 1926 – 28 January 2018) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Noronha was ordained to the priesthood in 1950. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut The Diocese of Calicut ( la, Dioecesis ...

(7 June 1980 – retired 19 April 2002), died 2018 * Joseph Kalathiparambil (19 April 2002 – 22 February 2011); next Secretary (second-in-command) of the

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(22 February 2011 – 31 October 2016) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Verapoly (India) (31 October 2016 – ...) *

Varghese Chakkalakal Bishop Varghese Chakkalakal is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut. Early life Varghese was born on 7 February 1953 at Malapallipuram, Kerala, India. Education He acquired his Master of Theology from Pontifical Semina ...

(15 May 2012 - ...), also Secretary General of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (17 August 2013 – 6 February 2017); previously Bishop of

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(India) (5 November 1998 – 15 May 2012), remaining

of Kannur (15 May 2012 – 1 February 2014).

References

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History of Kozhikode The Kozhikode (Malayalam: ), also known as Calicut, was the kingdom of the Zamorin of Calicut, in the present-day Indian state of Kerala. Present-day Kozhikode is the second largest city in Kerala, as well as the headquarters of Kozhikode distr ...

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Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century Churches in Kozhikode district

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