Roman Catholic Diocese of Mysore
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mysore is a suffragan Latin diocese, in the ecclesiastical province of Bangalore in southern India. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Philomena's Cathedral in the city of Mysore in Karnataka.
Statistics
As per 2022, it pastorally served 117,790 Catholics on 21,051 km2 in 80 parishes with 216 priests, 1,224 lay religious and 22 seminarians.History
- Established on 16 March 1845 as a Pro-Vicariate of Mysore - Bangalore, on territory split off either from the Apostolic Vicariate of Pondicherry or from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Madura and Coromandel Coast
- Promoted on 3 April 1850 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Mysore - Bangalore
- Promoted on 1 September 1886 as Diocese of Mysore - Bangalore in the Ecclesiastical Metropolitan Province of Pondicherry
- Lost territories repeatedly : on 12 June 1923 to establish Diocese of Calicut, on 26 May 1930 to establish Diocese of Salem, on 13 February 1940 to establish Diocese of Bangalore, on 3 July 1955 to establish Diocese of Ootacamund and on 16 November 1963 to establish Diocese of Chikmagalur.
Leadership
Until 1963, all European members of Latin rite missionary congregations;Apostolic Vicars of Mysore
- Étienne-Louis Charbonnaux, Paris [Foreign Missions Society] , Titular Bishop of Iassus, previously as Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Verapoly
- Joseph-Auguste Chevalier, M.E.P. , Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis
- Jean-Yves-Marie Coadou, M.E.P. , Titular Bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia
- Jean-Yves-Marie Coadou, M.E.P.
- Eugène-Louis Kleiner, M.E.P. , succeeding as former Titular Bishop of Lyrba as Coadjutor Bishop of Mysore ; on emeritate Titular Bishop of Tlous
- Augustin-François Baslé, M.E.P. , succeeding as former Titular Bishop of Calynda as Coadjutor Bishop of Mysore
- Hippolyte Teissier, M.E.P.
- Maurice-Bernard-Benoit-Joseph Despatures, M.E.P. ; next Bishop of Roman [Catholic Diocese of Bangalore|Bangalore] , emeritate as Titular Bishop of Benda
- René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, M.E.P. while on emeritates as Titular Bishop of Fornos major
- Sebastião Francisco Mathias Fernandes
- Francis Michaelappa
- Joseph Roy ; died 2014
- Thomas Antony Vazhapilly
- Kannikadass William Antony
- Francis Serrao