Eparchy of Chanda

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)

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