Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Idukki
The Marthoma Nazrani Eparchy of Idukki is a suffragan eparchy in southern India, in the proper ecclesiastical province of the Major Archdiocese of Eranakulam-Angamaly, which heads the entire Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, hence dependent on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Its cathedral episcopal see is Saint George's Cathedral Vazhathoppe, in Idukki township, in Kerala state.History
The creation of the diocese on 2003.01.15, as the twenty-sixth eparchy of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, on territory split off from the Diocese of Kothamangalam is contained in an Apostolic Constitution Maturescens catholica fideis put forth by Pope John Paul II in December 2002. It started with 114 parishes and mission stations.Statistics
As per 2015, it pastorally served 266,600 Catholics on 3,000 km² in 155 parishes with 573 priests, 1,306 lay religious and 86 seminarians.; Suffragan Eparchs of Idukki
