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{{short description|Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox diocese
| jurisdiction = Archeparchy
| name = Shamshabad
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| border = Catholic
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| country = {{flag|India}}
| territory = *'''States (14):''' Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh
*'''Union Territories (2):''' Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
*'''State territories outside the Jurisdiction of other Eparchies (3):''' the Eparchy of Adilabad in the State of Telangana, the Eparchy of Rajkot in the State of Gujarat, and the Eparchies of Bijnor, Gorakhpur, Satna and Faridabad in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
*'''Districts of UTs(4):''' Yanam, Daman, Dadra and Nagar Haveli
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| population_as_of = 2022
| catholics = 123,735{{efn|name="ap2023"}}
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| parishes = 37 parishes, 69 missions<ref name="gcatholic.shamshabad"/>
| churches = 11 functional, 7 under construction, as of 2017{{Citation needed |date=March 2024}}{{Update inline |date=March 2024}}
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| denomination = [[Catholic Church]]
| sui_iuris_church = [[Syro-Malabar Church]]
| rite = [[East Syriac Rite]]<ref>{{Cite web |first1=George |last1=Alencherry |url=http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/news_details.php?news=2512 |title=Circular – New Liturgical Texts of the Syro-Malabar Church |publisher=Syro-Malabar Church |date=6 December 2013 |id=2185/2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801112642/http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/news_details.php?news=2512 |archivedate=1 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| established = {{start date and age|10 October 2017}}
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| cathedral = St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Kukatpally
| patron = {{ubl
| [[Thomas the Apostle|Mar Thoma Sliha]]<ref name="patron">{{cite web |url=https://www.shamshabaddiocese.org/patronhome |title=Patron |publisher=Eparchy of Shamashabad |accessdate=22 March 2024}}</ref>
| {{nowrap|[[St. John Paul II]], co-patron<ref name="patron"/>}}
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| priests = 72 (52 diocesan, 20 religious){{efn|name="ap2023"|''[[Annuario Pontificio]]'' (2023) via ''[[Catholic-Hierarchy.org]]''<ref name="catholic-hierarchy.dshsm"/>}}
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| pope = {{Incumbent pope}} 
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| major_archbishop = Mar [[Raphael Thattil]]
| metro_archbishop = [[Antony Prince Panengaden|Mar Antony Panengaden]]
| bishop_title = Bishop
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| suffragans = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Adilabad | Eparchy of Adilabad]]
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| [[Joseph Kollamparambil| Mar Joseph Kollamparambil]]
| [[Thomas Padiyath| Mar Thomas Padiyath]]<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=12 January 2024 |title=Diocese of Shamshabad |publisher=UCA News |url=https://www.ucanews.com/directory/bishops/bishop-kollamparambil/1139 |department=List of Catholic Dioceses in Asia}}</ref>
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| website = {{URL|shamshabaddiocese.org}}
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The '''Archeparchy of Shamshabad''' is an [[archeparchy]] of the [[Syro-Malabar Church|Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]] based in [[Telangana]], [[India]]. It was established by [[Pope Francis]] on 10 October 2017 as an eparchy, and Mar [[Raphael Thattil]] was appointed its first eparch.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2017/10/10/171010d.html |publisher=[[Holy See Press Office]] |title=Provisions for the Syro-Malabar Church, 10.10.2017 |accessdate=11 July 2018 |date=10 October 2017}}</ref> In a letter to the bishops of India, Francis cited India's decades of experience with "overlapping jurisdictions" of different ''[[Sui iuris#Catholic ecclesiastical use|sui iuris]]'' churches. He wrote: "With the growth of spiritual friendship and mutual assistance, any tension or apprehension should be swiftly overcome. May this extension of the pastoral area of the Syro-Malabar Church in no way be perceived as a growth in power and domination, but as a call to deeper communion, which should never be perceived as uniformity."<ref>{{cite web |accessdate=11 July 2018 |date=9 October 2017 |title=Letter of the Holy Father |publisher=Holy See Press Office |url=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2017/10/10/171010b.html}}</ref> On 28 August 2025, the eparchy was elevated to an archeparchy.<ref>{{Cite press release |title=it:Erezione della Provincia Ecclesiastica di Shamshabad dei Siro-Malabaresi (India) e nomina del primo Arcivescovo Metropolita |trans-title=Erection of the ecclesiastical province of Shamshabad of the Syro-Malabars, India, and appointment of the first metropolitan archbishop |url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2025/08/28/0597/01033.html#provinciashamshabad |language=it |date=28 August 2025 |publisher=[[Holy See Press Office]] |accessdate=29 September 2025 |id=01038-IT.01}}</ref>

The new jurisdiction was inaugurated with Mar Thattil's installation on 7 January 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kerala church gets back all-India jurisdiction with Shamshabad diocese |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kerala-church-gets-back-all-india-jurisdiction-with-shamshabad-diocese-5015260/ |work=[[The Indian Express]] |accessdate=11 July 2018 |date=7 January 2018 |agency=[[Press Trust of India|PTI]]}}</ref> The cathedral is the St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Church at [[Kukatpally]], in Greater [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]].

There are 130,000 Catholics in the Shamshabad diocese with eleven functional churches and seven under construction.<ref name=new>{{cite press release |url=http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/news_details.php?news=8117 |title=New Eparchy of Shamshabad |publisher=Syro-Malabar Church |accessdate=11 July 2018 |date=10 October 2017 |archive-date=14 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014170112/http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/news_details.php?news=8117 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Regional administration==
The eparchy is divided into several regions that are headed by regional superiors, often from missions of religious congregations, for better administration. The two Auxiliary Eparchs are given charge of two of the prominent mission regions of the eparchy. Mar [[Joseph Kollamparambil]] heads the Gujarat mission region and Mar [[Thomas Padiyath]] heads the Etawah-Jaipur mission region.

===Etawah-Jaipur region===
The Etawah-Jaipur Mission region comprises the former missions of Etawah (Agra Mission) and Jaipur of the Archeparchy of Changanassery.

The Etawah mission, was established in 1975 using the guildlines of the 1974 CBCI Calcutta chapter, and of dialogues between the Latin Catholic [[Archdiocese of Agra]] and the Syro-Malabar Catholic [[Archeparchy of Changanacherry]]. The mission spreads across several Latin dioceses of the [[Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Agra#Province|Agra province]]. It was a result of the collaboration between the then Archbishops [[Dominic Athaide]] of Agra and Mar [[Antony Padiyara]] of Changanassery. The mission worked across all fields fulfilling the needs of the community and beyond.

When the Eparchy of Shamshabad was erected in 2017, the mission region came under its territorial jurisdiction, and as part of the agreement signed in 2018 February between the Eparchy of Shamshabad and Archeparchy of Changanassery, the Etawah-Jaipur mission would be granted administrative, pastoral and missionary autonomy hitherto enjoyed under the Archdiocese of Agra. With a clause added that the regions under the mission, may in time raised to the dignity of an Eparchy or Exarchate in due course of time.

The Jaipur mission (St. Mary's mission) was setup in 2015 as an initiative of Mar [[Joseph Perumthottam]], and in wake of the all India jurisdiction of the church and rising needs of pastoral care in the state of Rajastan. With collaboration between the Eparch of Shamshabad, even before its formation, this mission that spread across 12 districts of Rajasthan worked extensively. And later entered into a similar agreement like that of Etawah mission, with the newly formed eparchy.

In the 30th Synod of the Syro-Malabar, 2022. Mar [[Thomas Padiyath]] was made Auxiliary eparch of Shamshabad with a special charge of the Etawah-Jaipur region.

===Sabarmati (Gujarat) region===
Since 2009, the Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (MCSB), through its Emmaus Province, worked in the Gujarat mission, to tend to the pastoral needs of the Syro-Malabar faithful in the dioceses of Ahmedabad and Baroda.

Following the 30th Synod, Mar [[Joseph Kollamparambil]] was made Auxiliary eparch of Shamshabad with special charge of the Sabarmati mission, which encompasses the remaining districts of the State of Gujarat (removing those under eparchy of Rajkot), and the Union territory of Daman Diu Dadar and Nagar Haveli.
==Suffragans==
*[[Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Adilabad|Eparchy of Adilabad]]

== Prelates ==
'''Bishop's '''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Sl.No
! Ordinary
! Designation
! Year of appointment
! Last year of service
|-
| align="center" | 1
| [[Raphael Thattil]]
| align="center" | Bishop
| align="center" |2017
| align="center" |2024
|-
| align="center" | 2
| [[Antony Prince Panengaden]]
| align="center" | Bishop
| align="center" |2024
| align="center" |2025
|}
'''Archbishop's'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Sl.No
! Ordinary
! Designation
! Year of appointment
! Last year of service
|-
| align="center" | 1
| [[Antony Prince Panengaden]]
| align="center" |Archbishop
| align="center" |2025
| align="center" |''Present''
|}

'''Auxiliary Bishop's'''
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Sl.No
! Ordinary
! Designation
! Year of appointment
! Last year of service
|-
| align="center" |1
| [[Joseph Kollamparambil]]
| align="center" | Auxiliary bishop
| align="center" |2022
| align="center" |''Present''
|-
| align="center" |2
| [[Thomas Padiyath]]
| align="center" | Auxiliary bishop
| align="center" |2022
| align="center" |''Present''
|-
|}

== Notes ==
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==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="catholic-hierarchy.dshsm">{{Cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=[[Catholic-Hierarchy.org]] |publisher=David M. Cheney |date=17 February 2024 |accessdate=22 March 2024 |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dshsm.html |title=Shamshabad (Syro-Malabar Eparchy)}}</ref>

<ref name="gcatholic.shamshabad">{{Cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=GCatholic |publisher=Gabriel Chow |date=4 March 2024 |accessdate=22 March 2024 |url=https://gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/sham0.htm?tab=info |title=Syro-Malabar Diocese of Shamshabad}}</ref>

}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.shamshabaddiocese.org/}}
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dshsm.html Eparchy of Shamshabad profile (Syro-Malabar)] at [[Catholic-Hierarchy.org]]
* [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/sham0.htm Syro-Malabar Diocese of Shamshabad profile] at [https://gcatholic.org GCatholic]
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Malik ali at 19:39, 16 February 2026