Archeparchy of Ujjain
catholic eparchy in India
The Archeparchy of Ujjain is an ecclesiastical district of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic Church of the East Syriac Rite in India. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Mary's Cathedral, in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh in Central India.
In August 2025, Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil elevated it as an archeparchy and appointed Mar Sebastian Vadakel the bishop of the Ujjain as its first Metropolitan Archbishop. The archeparchy leads the church's ecclesiastical province that serves most of Central India.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 4,602 Eastern Catholics (0.1% of 6,253,649 total) on 18,441 km2 in 41 parishes and a mission with 93 priests (41 diocesan, 52 religious), 433 lay religious (120 brothers, 313 sisters) and 9 seminarians.
History
It was created on 29 July 1968 as Apostolic Exarchate of Ujjain, on territory split off from the (Latin) Diocese of Indore.
On 26 February 1977 the Apostolic Exarchate was elevated to Diocese of Ujjain.
On 28 August 2025, eparchy received territory from the Eparchy of Shamshabad. The ecclesiastical province of Ujjain was established by elevating the Eparchy of Ujjain as a metropolitan archeparchy and constituting Sagar, Satna and Jagadalpur as suffragan eparchies.
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