Diocese of Bellary
The Diocese of Bellary is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in India. Its episcopal see is Bellary. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangalore.
History
- 15 June 1928: Established as Mission "sui iuris" of Bellary from the Diocese of Hyderabad and Archdiocese of Madras
- 10 March 1949: Promoted as Diocese of Bellary
Ordinaries
- Ecclesiastical superiors
- * Fr. John Forest Hogan, O.F.M.
- * Fr. Ernesto Reilly, O.F.M.
- Bishops
- * Bishop Henry D'Souza
- * Archbishop Bernard Blasius Moras
- * Bishop Joseph D'Silva
- * Bishop Ambrose Papaiah Yeddanapalli, O.F.M.
- * Bishop John Forest Hogan, O.F.M.