Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Shamshabad

The Eparchy of Shamshabad is a Syro-Malabar Church eparchy of the Catholic Church in Telangana, India. It was established by Pope Francis on 10 October 2017, and Raphael Thattil was appointed its first bishop. In a letter to the bishops of India, Francis cited India's decades of experience with "overlapping jurisdictions" of different sui iuris churches. He wrote: "With the growth of spiritual friendship and mutual assistance, any tension or apprehension should be swiftly overcome. May this extension of the pastoral area of the Syro-Malabar Church in no way be perceived as a growth in power and domination, but as a call to deeper communion, which should never be perceived as uniformity."

The new jurisdiction was inaugurated with Thattil's installation on 7 January 2018. The cathedral is the St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Church at Kukatpally, in Greater Hyderabad.

There are 130,000 Catholics in the Shamshabad diocese with eleven functional churches and seven under construction.

Bishops

 * Ordinaries
 * Raphael Thattil (2018–2024)
 * sede vacante (Joseph Kollamparambil, Archiepiscopal Administrator) (2024)


 * Auxiliary Bishops


 * Joseph Kollamparambil (2022–present)
 * Thomas Padiyath (2022–present)