The Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam (Knanaya) is a Roman Catholic eparchy (diocese) in India, under the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, comprising Syro-Malabar faithful of the Knanaya ethnoreligious group.
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The Vicariate Apostolic of Kottayam was created in 1911. It was elevated to an eparchy by Pope Pius X in his Bull “Universi Christiani” in 1923 and to an archeparchy in 2005.The Arch-diocese of Kottayam spans not just the Kottayam district and surroundings, but the entire state of Kerala, throughout India, and also overseas.
In other words: "The Kottayam arch-diocese extends over the whole territorium propium of the Syro-Malabar Church." - Diocesan data, St Thomas Christian Museum, Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Curia, Kakkanad, Cochin