ST. ALPHONSA
BL.KUNJACHAN
MAR JOSEPH
KALLARANGATT
MAR JOSEPH
PALLIKAPARAMPIL
MAR SEBASTIAN VAYALIL
Bishop's House Palai 686575, Kerala, India
Phone : 04822 212216, 212217, 214338
Fax : 04822 211379
The eparchy has an area of 1166 Sq.Km. comprising the Meenachil Taluk and a few villages of the neighbouring Taluks in Kottayam, Ernakulam and Idukki Districts of Central Kerala. The faithful of this diocese, numbering 326742, belong to the ancient St. Thomas Christian Community.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII of happy memory, by the Bull “Quo Ecclesiarum”, issued on 25 July 1950, bifurcated the eparchy of Changanacherry and out of the territory covered by the then Foranes of Palai, Muttuchira, Kuravilangad, Anakkallu and Ramapuram erected the eparchy of Palai as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam. Most Rev. Dr. Leo P. Kierkels, the Apostolic Internuncio in India, published the Bull in the St. Thomas Cathedral Palai on 04 January 1951 and installed Mar Sebastian Vayalil as the first Bishop of the new eparchy. On the 22 of August 1956 when the Holy See by the Ap.Const. ‘Regnum Coelorum’ raised the eparchy of Changanacherry to the status of an Archeparchy and constituted the new ecclesiastical province of Changanacherry, the eparchy of Palai became one of its suffragans.
Grand Finale
of
The Birth Centenary of St. Alphonsa
The Birth Centenary Celebration of St. Alphonsa will come to a close at Bharananganam on 12th August 2010, evening. The President of India, Her Excellency Smt. Pratibha Devising Patil, is expected to inaugurate the celebrations and the Governor of Kerala, His Excellency Sri. R S Gavai, will preside over the function. Many Civic and Church dignitaries are expected to be present on the occasion. People from all walks of life will throng to make it a spectacular event.
