Graveyards of Catholic community: Mount Carmel Cathedral in Kerala

Cemetery of Catholic community at Mount Carmel Cathedral in Alappuzha Kerala.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey is a diocese centred on the city of Alleppey in the Ecclesiastical province of Trivandrum in India. It lies along the Arabian Sea between the dioceses of Cochin and Quilon, covering an area of 333 square kilometers.

The Diocese of Alleppey was erected by the Papal Bull “ Ea Redemptoris Verba” of Pope Pius XII, dated June 19, 1952 which divided the northern territory of the old Cochin Diocese at the Kuthiathodu Canal Line. The territory to the north of that line belongs to the Cochin Diocese and that to the south of it,to the Diocese of Alleppey.The executorial Decree of September 8, 1952 assigned to each of the Diocese of Alleppey and Cochin a supplementary personal jurisdiction over certain parishes in the territory of the other. This Decree was approved by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith on September 24, 1952 and become effective on October 11, 1952.

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