Four new Ecclesiastical Provinces in Syro-Malabar Church

Major Archishop of the Syro-Malabar Church Mar Raphael Thattil on Thursday issued decrees erecting four new ecclesiastical provinces in Faridabad, Ujjain, Kalyan, and Shamshabad.

Mar Kuriakose Bharanikulangara, Mar Sebastian Vadakel MST, Mar Sebastian Vaniyapurackal, and Mar Prince Antony Panengadan were appointed as the Metropolitan Archbishops of the provinces respectively.

The decisions were announced at a public meeting held at the Mount St. Thomas, Kakkanad, in the presence of the Synod Fathers, according to a release.

The Synod decided to reorganise the territories of eleven eparchies by redistributing certain areas of the Shamshabad Eparchy. The Major Archbishop has issued decrees redefining the territories of the eparchies that include Adilabad, Bijnor, Chanda, Gorakhpur, Kalyan, Jagdalpur, Rajkot, Sagar, Satna, Shamshabad, and Ujjain, it said.