Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Bijnor

[1] With an area of 30,664 square kilometers, this eparchy has 49 mission stations, 25 schools, 16 health centres and dispensaries and 5 boarding houses.

The eparchy of Bijnor was originally an apostolic exarchate, created on 23 March 1972 by the papal bull Beatorum Apostolorum of Pope Paul VI.

It consisted of the civil districts of Bijnor (excluding the tehsil of Dhampur), Pauri, Tehri, Uttarkashi and Chamoli of the then state of Uttar Pradesh.

23 March 1972 – Erection of Apostolic Exarchate of Bijnor by the papal bull Beatorum Apostolorum of Pope Paul VI.

25 July 1972 – Fr Gratian Mundadan CMI took charge as the Apostolic Exarch of Bijnor.

26 February 1977 – Erection of the Diocese of Bijnor by the Papal Bull Quae Cum Romano of Pope Paul VI.

26 January 1997 – Death of Fr Peter Moothedan in road accident at Nawada (Bijnor).