Diocese of Mysore
| Diocese of Mysore | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Country | India |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Bangalore |
| Diocesan bishop | Kannikadass William Antony |
| Emeritus diocesan bishop | Thomas Vazhapilly |
| founding | 1850 |
| surface | 21,051 km² |
| Parishes | 79 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 10,575,780 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 107,998 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 1 % |
| Diocesan priest | 124 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 49 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 624 |
| Friars | 338 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 920 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| cathedral | St. Joseph's Cathedral |
| address | Bangalore-Nilgiris Rd.Mysore 570001, Karnataka India |
| Website | http://www.dioceseofmysore.com/ |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mysore ( lat. : Dioecesis Mysuriensis ) is in India situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Mysore .
history
The Pro-Vicariate Apostolic Mysore was established in 1845 from cessions of territory from the diocese of Madura . It was founded in 1850 by Pope Pius IX. raised to the Apostolic Vicariate of Mysore . On September 1, 1886, the Vicariate Apostolic Mysore was raised to the diocese. It was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Bangalore as a suffragan . The diocese of Mysore gave up several times in its history parts of its territory to establish new dioceses.
territory
The diocese of Mysore includes the districts of Mysore , Mandya and Chamarajanagar in the state of Karnataka .
Ordinaries of Mysore
Vicars Apostolic
- Etienne-Louis Charbonnaux MEP , 1850–1873 ( titular bishop of Iasus )
- Joseph-Auguste Chevalier MEP, 1873-1880
- Jean-Yves-Marie Coadou MEP, 1880–1886 (titular bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia )
Bishops
- Jean-Yves-Marie Coadou MEP, 1886-1890
- Eugène-Louis Kleiner MEP, 1890–1910
- Augustin-François Baslé MEP, 1910–1915
- Hippolyte Teissier MEP, 1916-1922
- Maurice-Bernard-Benoit-Joseph Despatures MEP, 1922–1940, then Bishop of Bangalore
- René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga MEP, 1941–1962
- Mathias Sebastião Francisco Fernandes , 1963–1985
- Francis Michaelappa , 1986-1993
- Joseph Roy , 1994-2003
- Thomas Vazhapilly , 2003-2017
- Kannikadass William Antony , since 2017