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{{Infobox diocese<br />
|jurisdiction = Eparchy<br />
|name = Thamarassery <br />
|country = India <br />
|metropolitan = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Tellicherry]] <br />
|rite = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church|Syro-Malabar]] <br />
|area_km2 = 5,893 <br />
|population = 5,749,275 <br />
|population_as_of = 2004 <br />
|catholics = 124,664 <br />
|catholics_percent= 2.2 <br />
|pope = {{Incumbent pope}}<br />
| patriarch = <br />
| major_archbishop = [[Raphael Thattil]]<br />
| metro_archbishop = [[Joseph Pamplany]]<br />
|bishop = [[Remigiose Inchananiyil]]<br />
|latin=|local=|image=Thamarassery_diocese.png|coat=|flag=|territory=|headquarters=Thamarassery|denomination= Catholic|parishes=|churches=|sui_iuris_church=|established=|founded=|dissolved=|cathedral=Mary Matha Cathedral|patron=|language=<br />
|map=Map of Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Thamarassery.png<br />
}}<br />
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The '''Eparchy of Thamarassery''' is an [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]] [[eparchy]] in [[India]], under the [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]]. Created on 28 April 1986, it is under the Province of Tellicherry, and governed by the [[Major Archbishop of Erankulam-Angamaly]] and the [[synod]] of all bishops of the [[Sui iuris Church|''sui iuris'' Church]], both within and outside India. <br />
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The eparchy has several important churches, the foremost being Saint Thomas Forane Church Koorachudu, and [[Sacred Heart Forane Church Thiruvambady]]. <br />
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The current eparch is [[Remigiose Inchananiyil]], until then eparchy secretary and chancellor, and judge of the major archiepiscopal tribunal, who was appointed on Monday, 18 January 2010 by the Syro-Malabar Synod of Bishops’ meeting at Mount Saint Thomas (with the assent of the [[Holy See]]). He was consecrated on 8 April 2010.<br />
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== Eparchial bishops ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Sl.No<br />
! style="background: #ffdead;" | Ordinary<br />
! style="background: #ffdead;" | Designation<br />
! style="background: #ffdead;" | Year of appointment<br />
! style="background: #ffdead;" | Last year of service<br />
|-<br />
| 1<br />
| [[Sebastian Mankuzhikary]] <br />
| align="center" | Bishop<br />
| align="center" | 1986<br />
| align="center" | 1994<br />
|-<br />
| 2<br />
| [[Jacob Thoomkuzhy]] <br />
| align="center" | Bishop<br />
| align="center" | 1995<br />
| align="center" | 1996<br />
|-<br />
| 3<br />
| [[Paul Chittilapilly]] <br />
| align="center" | Bishop<br />
| align="center" | 1996<br />
| align="center" | 2010<br />
|-<br />
| 4<br />
| [[Remigiose Inchananiyil]] <br />
| align="center" | Bishop<br />
| align="center" | 2010<br />
| align="center" | ''present''<br />
|}<br />
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==Foranes under Diocese of Thamarassery==<br />
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* Karuvarakundu Holy Family Church (1972)<br />
* Kodenchery St.Mary's Church (1949)<br />
* Koorachundu St. Thomas Church (1947)<br />
* Malappuram St. Thomas Church (2005)<br />
* Marudonkara St.Mary's Church (1939)<br />
* Paroppady St. Antony's Church (1969)<br />
* Perinthalamanna St. Alphonsa's Church (1995)<br />
* Thamarassery Mary Matha Cathedral Church (1984)<br />
* [[Sacred Heart Forane Church Thiruvambady|Thiruvambady Sacred Heart Church (1944)]]<br />
* Thottumukkom St. Thomas Church (1960)<br />
* Vilangad St. Georges Church (1968)<br />
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Under these 11 Foranes there are 118 parishes, 14 stations also there. Around 30,000 families & 1.30 lakhs members are there total in Diocese.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*P.T. SEBASTIAN, The Sociology of Christian Migration to Malabar 1930 - 1980, (thesis), University of Calicut, Kozhikode-Kerala 2002.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dtmsm.html Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Thamarassery at Catholic-Hierarchy]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071017210459/http://hindu.com/2007/10/17/stories/2007101753490600.htm]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071017204716/http://hindu.com/2007/10/16/stories/2007101651040300.htm]<br />
* [http://in.news.yahoo.com/071015/48/6lz68.html]<br />
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