Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Sagar
Eparchy (Diocese) of Sagar सागर धर्मप्रांत | |
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| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Ecclesiastical province | Bhopal |
| Metropolitan | Bhopal |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 39,020 km2 (15,070 sq mi) |
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| Rite | Syro-Malabar |
| Cathedral | St.Theresa's Cathedral Sagar Cantonment (formerly known as St. Raphael's Cathedral) |
| Patron saint | St Thérèse of Lisieux |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Major Archbishop | Mar Raphael Thattil |
| Bishop | Mar James Athikalam MST |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Leo Cornelio |
| Bishops emeritus | Mar Antony Chirayath Bishop Emeritus (2006-2018) |
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| Website of the Diocese | |
The Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy (Diocese) of Sagar is an eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) in central India, which is part of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (Chaldean or Syro-Oriental Rite, led by the Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, under the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches), yet is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Latin Catholic Metropolitan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bhopal. It was created in 1968 as (missionary) and promoted diocese in 1977 by the papal bull Divina Verba of Pope Paul VI.
Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Theresa’s Cathedral, in Saga(u)r.