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{{Infobox diocese
| jurisdiction = Eparchy
| name = Chanda
| local = चांदा च्या बिशपच्या अधिकारातील प्रदेश
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| country = {{flag|India}}
| territory =
| metropolitan = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur|Nagpur]]
| province = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur|Nagpur]]
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| area_km2 = 32,233
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| population = 3,764,000
| population_as_of = 2009
| catholics = 14,757
| catholics_percent = 0.4
| parishes = 6
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| denomination = [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]]
| rite = [[East Syriac Rite]]
| established = 26 February 1977
| cathedral = Cathedral of St Thomas the Apostle in [[Ballarpur]]
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| patron = [[Thomas the Apostle|St Thomas the Apostle]]
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| pope = {{Incumbent pope}} 
| patriarch =
| major_archbishop = Mar [[George Alencherry]]
| bishop = Mar Ephrem Nariculam
| bishop_title = 
| metro_archbishop = Elias Gonsalves
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| website = [http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/diocese_details.php?id=7 Website of the Eparchy]
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The '''Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chanda''' is an [[eparchy]] ([[Eastern Catholic]] diocese) of the [[East Syriac Rite]] [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]], yet [[suffragan]] of the Latin Metropolitan [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagpur]].

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 [[Papal bull|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]])

== Ordinaries ==
;''Apostolic Exarch of Chanda''
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpalaj.html Januarius Paul Palathuruthy], [[Carmelites of Mary Immaculate]] (C.M.I.) ( July 1968 – 26 February 1977 ''see below'')

;''Suffragan Eparchs (Bishops) of Chanda''
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpalaj.html Januarius Palathuruthy], C.M.I. (see above, 26 February 1977 – retired 20 April 1990)
* Mar [http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/bishop.php?id=10 Vijay Anand Nedumpuram], C.M.I. (20 April 1990 – retired 31 July 2014), previously [[Prior General]] of [[Carmelites of Mary Immaculate]] (1985 – 1990.04.20)
* Mar Ephrem Nariculam (31 July 2014 – ...), of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, previously Chaplain of the Syro-Malabar Community in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], and Coordinator of Priestly Formation at a Seminary and as a Lecturer in Theology in the city.<ref>http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/07/31/0547/01207.html</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.thesyromalabarchurch.org/chanda.htm Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chanda]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dcdsm.html Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chanda] at [[Catholic-Hierarchy]]

{{Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Hierarchy}}

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