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Eparchy of Chanda चांदा च्या बिशपच्या अधिकारातील प्रदेश
Location
Country	India
Ecclesiastical province	Archeparchy of Kalyan
Statistics
Area	32,233 km2 (12,445 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2009) 3,764,000 14,757 (0.4%)
Parishes	6
Information
Denomination	Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Rite	East Syriac Rite
Established	26 February 1977
Cathedral	Cathedral of St Thomas the Apostle in Ballarpur
Patron saint	St Thomas the Apostle
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Major Archbishop	Mar Raphael Thattil
Bishop	Mar Ephrem Nariculam
Metropolitan Archbishop	Mar Sebastian Vaniyapurackal
Map
Website
Website of the Eparchy

The Eparchy of Chanda is an eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) of the East Syriac Rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, and a suffragan of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Kalyan.

Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Thomas Cathedral, in Ballarpur, in India's Maharashtra state.

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 (bishop).
• Lost territory on 23 June 1999 to establish the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Adilabad (a suffragan of the Latin Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hyderabad)

Prelates

Apostolic Exarch of Chanda

Sl.no	Name	Designation	Year of appointment	Last year of service
1	Januarius Palathuruthy, C.M.I.	Apostolic Exarch	1968	1977

Eparchs of Chanda

Sl.no	Name	Designation	Year of appointment	Last year of service
1	Mar Januarius Palathuruthy, C.M.I.	Bishop	1977	1990
2	Mar Vijay Anand Nedumpuram, C.M.I.	Bishop	1990	2014
3	Mar Ephrem Nariculam	Bishop	2014	Present

External links

• Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chanda
• Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chanda at Catholic-Hierarchy