Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chanda

History

• It was created on 29 July 1968 as Apostolic Exarchate of Chanda, a pre-diocesan Eastern Catholic missionary jurisdiction, on then Latin territories, split off from its present Metropolitan, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur, and from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amravati.
• Promoted as Eparchy of Chanda on 26 February 1977 by the Bull Nostra Ipsorum of Pope Paul VI, promoting its Exarch to become the first Eparch.
• Lost territory on 23 June 1999 to establish the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Adilabad

  Ordinaries

• , Carmelites of Mary Immaculate

• , C.M.I.
• Mar , C.M.I., previously Prior General of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate
• Mar Ephrem Nariculam, of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, previously Chaplain of the Syro-Malabar Community in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Coordinator of Priestly Formation at a Seminary and as a Lecturer in Theology in the city.