Roman Catholic Diocese of Sultanpet

Diocese of Sultanpet

*Dioecesis Sultanpetensis*
Diocese of Sultanpet; Dioecesis Sultanpetensis
Location
Country	India
Territory	Palakkad district
Ecclesiastical province	Verapoly
Metropolitan	Verapoly
Statistics
Area	4,466 km2 (1,724 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics	(as of 2013); 4,260,435; 30,975 (0.7%)
Parishes	31
Schools	4
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	28 December 2013
Cathedral	Saint Sebastian Cathedral, Sultanpet
Patron saint	Saint Sebastian
Secular priests	46
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Peter Abir Antonisamy
Metropolitan Archbishop	Joseph Kalathiparambil
Vicar General	Rev Fr. Alese Sunder Raj
Website
	http://sultanpetdiocese.org

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sultanpet (Latin: Dioecesis Sultanpetensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese consisting of Palakkad district, Kerala, India erected from the division of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Coimbatore and Roman Catholic Diocese of Calicut, and a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Verapoly.^[1] Rev. Peter Abir Antonisamy clergy of Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore was appointed as its first bishop. The parish church of San Sebastian, located in Sultanpet in the city of Palakkad, is the cathedral of this diocese. At the time of its erection it was the 31st Catholic diocese in Kerala^[2] and 167th in India.^[3] The diocese is almost coterminous with the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Palghat.

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