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Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Neyyattinkara / Neyyattinkaraën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Trivandrum

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: St. Joseph the Worker

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1996.06.14: Established as Diocese of Neyyattinkara / Neyyattinkaraën(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Trivandrum and became suffragan of Verapoly)
2004.06.03: Became suffragan of Trivandrum

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.10.18 – ...):

Bishop Selvarajan Dasan (63)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Neyyattinkara (Roman Rite)

Bishop Selvarajan Dasan (63)
(2025.10.18 – ...)

Bishop of Neyyattinkara (India)

To serve in compassion

Born:	1962.01.27 (Valiyavila, India)
Ordained Priest:	1987.12.23
Consecrated Bishop:	2025.03.25

Priest of Trivandrum (India) (1987.12.23 – 1996.06.14)

Priest of Neyyattinkara (India) (1996.06.14 – 2025.02.08)

Coadjutor Bishop of Neyyattinkara (India) (2025.02.08 – 2025.10.18)

Bishop of Neyyattinkara (India) (2025.10.18 – ...)

Bishop Vincent Samuel (75)
(1996.06.14 – 2025.10.18)

Bishop emeritus of Neyyattinkara (India)

To serve and save

Born:	1950.08.10 (Ayroor, India)
Ordained Priest:	1975.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1996.11.01

Priest of Trivandrum (India) (1975.12.19 – 1996.06.14)

Bishop of Neyyattinkara (India) (1996.06.14 – 2025.10.18)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Selvarajan Dasan (63) (2025.02.08 – 2025.10.18)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Neyyattinkara, Kerala

Trivandrum (↖), Punalur (↑), Palayamkottai (↗), Kuzhithurai (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 1,497 km²

Population: 157,192 Catholics (10.4% of 1,512,245 total)

Pastoral Centres: 90 parishes

Personnel: 149 priests (108 diocesan, 41 religious), 370 religious (49 brothers, 321 sisters), 27 seminarians

Diocese of

Neyyattinkara