DioceseOfCochin.org provides information on this Catholic Diocese in India

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Diocese of Cochin.

Description

The Diocese of Cochin - Official website. History of the Diocese of Cochin begins with the arrival of the Portuguese Missionaries in India. On February, 1557, the Diocese of Cochin is established and declared Goa as its Archdiocese. The Pope also declared thereby the magnificent Portuguese Church of Santa Cruz as the Cathedral of the new diocese. Its boundaries extended from Canannore in the north to Cape Comorin (Kanyakumari) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) down south on the west coast and the whole east coast of the subcontinen going up north and stretching further east including Burma. ,

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Diocese of Cochin
Cochin Kerala
IN 682006
+03.933936757

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