Metropolitan Archdiocese of Calicut Archdioecesis Metropolitae Calicutensis കോഴിക്കോട് ലത്തീൻ അതിരൂപത
Mother of God Cathedral, Calicut
Location
Country	India
Statistics
Area	12,505 km2 (4,828 sq mi)
Population Total Catholics	(as of 2006) 10,061,127 38,092 (0.4%)
Parishes	41
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Cathedral	Mother of God Cathedral inKozhikode
Patron saint	St Francis Xavier
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Metropolitan Archbishop	Varghese Chakkalakal
Vicar General	Jenson Puthenveettil
Website
Website of the Diocese

TheMetropolitan Archdiocese of Calicut (Latin:Archdioecesis Metropolitae Calicuten(sis)) is aLatin Church ecclesiastical province or metropolitanarchdiocese inIndia. It depends on the missionaryRoman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Its suffragan dioceses are theKannur andSulthanpet.^[1]

Itscathedral is Mother of God Cathedral,dedicated to Our Lady, in theepiscopal see ofKozhikode (Calicut).

As of 2015^[update], it pastorally served 48,250 Catholics (0.6% of 8,059,057 total population) on 8,036 km² in 41 parishes and 3 missions with 132 priests (57 diocesan, 75 religious), 837 lay religious (127 brothers, 710 sisters) and 12 seminarians.

• 12 June 1923: Established as Diocese of Calicut on territories split off from theRoman Catholic Diocese of Coimbatore,Diocese of Mangalore andDiocese of Mysore
• On 1949 it gained territory from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pondicherry^{[citation needed]}
• Lost territories repeatedly: on 31 December 1953 to establishDiocese of Tellicherry, on 1998.11.05 to establishDiocese of Kannur, on 28 December 2013 to establishDiocese of Sultanpet.^[2][3]
• On 12 April 2025, the Diocese of Calicut was elevated to the status of an archdiocese byPope Francis. BishopVarghese Chakkalakal, who had been serving as the diocesan bishop, was appointed as the first Metropolitan Archbishop of the newly formed Archdiocese.^[4]

Source:^[5]

• Paul Carlo Perini (1923 – 1932)
• Leone Proserpio (1932 – 1948)
• Aldo Maria Patroni (1948 – 1980)
• Maxwell Valentine Noronha (1980 – 2002)
• Joseph Kalathiparambil (2002 – 2011)
• Varghese Chakkalakal (2011 – 2025)

• Varghese Chakkalakal (2025 – present)

• GCatholic, with Google satellite HQ picture - data for all sections^{[self-published]}
• diocesan websiteArchived 13 June 2020 at theWayback Machine
• Catholic Hierarchy^{[self-published]}

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