Archbishop's House - Religious organization in Kottayam, Changanassery - Kottayam, India

Beautiful place. No hustle and bustle reaches here. Has a large office building and many offices where various institutions of Changanassery Archeeparchy are headquartered in. Mar Thoma Vidya Nikethan is in the building.

One of the largest cathilic dioceses in india ( area). It consits of 5 Districts in kerama namely kottayam, alappuzha, pattanamthitta, kollam and thiruvanthapuram.

The Archeparchy of Changanacherry is a Syro-Malabar Catholic archeparchy with an area of 24,595 km2 comprising the districts of Kottayam, Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kollam, and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, and also Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu. It is one of the largest Catholic dioceses in India in terms of area. Joseph Perumthottam is the current Metropolitan Archbishop, serving since 2007. Thomas Tharayil has been the auxiliary bishop since 2017. And Joseph Powathil is the bishop emeritus, having served from 1985 to 2007. Suffragan eparchies of the Changanassery archeparchy includes Palai, Kanjirappally-Nilackal, and Thuckalay-Thiruvithancode (Tamil Nadu). The Changanacherry (originally named Kottayam) was one of the first two Syro-Malabar vicariates, along with Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Thrissur, when Pope Leo XIII in 1887 re-organized Syro-Malabar Catholics as a separate church from the Latin Church's jurisdiction ever since the Synod of Diamper in 1599.

The Archeparchy of Changanacherry which comprises the civil districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha and Kottayam in Kerala, is one of the four metropolitan provinces in the Syro Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church. It is one of the first two Vicariates and the second Metropolitan Archeparchy of the Syro-Malabar Church, after the establishment of the Syro-Malabar hierarchy which was the prelude to the restoration of the identity of the Church in 1992 as Sui Iuris Church. Pope Leo XIII by his Bull ?Quod Jam Pridem? dated May 20, 1887 established two Vicariates Apostolic - Kottayam and Thrissur- exclusively for the Syro-Malabarians. The Vicariate of Kottayam was renamed Changanacherry, since this town had been the centre of Catholic activity and hence its headquarters had been shifted to Changanacherry in 1891. The Vicariate of Changanacherry together with others was raised to the status of an Eparchy in 1923 and an Archeparchy in 1956.

Very calm and quiet place..a peaceful atmosphere where we can meet Changanacherry Archbishop and other important office bearing priests...under the Archeparchy of Changanacherry...a lot of parking space....a good visual treat is there to fill our minds with the good sight of beautiful garden...

The Central offices of the Ancient Kottayam vicariath which later named as Archdiocese of Changanassery. It's also one of the largest diocese which spreads from Trivandrum district in South to Kottayam district

The Archbishops house, better known as 'Aramana' in Malayalam is the official home and Capital building of the Archdiocese of Changanacherry. The building which is built using mortar and wood is quite old , but well maintained.

Very beautiful place. Calm and quite atmosphere. Building are aged more than 120 years. Built by Mar Charles Lavinge