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The Eparchy of St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic of Chicago, also known as the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Diocese of Chicago, is a Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the United States. Its episcopal seat is the Mar Thoma Sleeha Cathedral in the episcopal see of Chicago.
Mar Thoma Sleeha Cathedral is a Syro-Malabar Catholic cathedral located in Bellwood, Illinois, United States. It is the seat for the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chicago. [2] The church was dedicated on July 5, 2008, by Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithaythil.
Mar Jacob Angadiath (born October 26, 1945) is an Indian prelate of the Catholic Church; he was serving as the first bishop of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago from July 2001 until his retirement on July 3, 2022. [1]
St. Mary's Knanaya Catholic Parish was formerly a part of the Knanaya Catholic Mission established by the Latin Archdiocese of Chicago from October 28, 1983 and later under the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago from July 1, 2001.
Mar John "Joy" Alappatt (born September 27, 1956) is an Indian-born bishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in the United States. He serves as the eparch of St. Thomas Eparchy of Chicago since 2022. He served as the auxiliary bishop of the same eparchy from 2014–2022.
Knanaya Region is a subdivision of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago.This region was officially established by Mar Jacob Angadiath, the bishop of the diocese on 30 April 2006.
This church is also the first church of the Knanaya Region under the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago. [2] The migrants from the Archdiocese of Kottayam living in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin were members of this parish [ 3 ] at the time of its establishment on 24 September 2006. [ 4 ]
The Catholic Saint Thomas Christians (Pazhayakūttukār) came to be known as the Syro Malabar Catholics from 1932 onwards to differentiate them from the Syro-Malankara Catholics in Kerala. The Indian East Syriac Catholic hierarchy was restored on 21 December 1923 with Augustine Kandathil as the first Metropolitan and Head of the Church with the ...