Diocese of Cuddapah, India 🇮🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Cuddapah / Cuddapahen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Hyderabad

Neighbouring Dioceses: Bangalore (↙), Kurnool (↖), Madras and Mylapore (↗), Nellore (→), Vellore (↓), Dharmapuri (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Joseph

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1976.10.19: Established as Diocese of Cuddapah / Cuddapahen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Nellore and became suffragan of Hyderabad)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2025.03.08 – ...):

Bishop Paul Prakash Saginala (65)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Cuddapah (Roman Rite)

Bishop Paul Prakash Saginala (65)
(2025.03.08 – ...)

Bishop of Cuddapah (India)

Prædicare et liberare

Born:	1960.11.28 (Badvel, India)
Ordained Priest:	1987.04.27
Consecrated Bishop:	2025.04.09

Priest of Cuddapah (India) (1987.04.27 – 2025.03.08)

Bishop of Cuddapah (India) (2025.03.08 – ...)

Bishop Bali Gali (86)
(Apostolic Administrator 2018.12.10 – 2025.03.08)

Bishop Prasad Gallela (63)
(2008.01.31 – 2018.12.10)

Bishop emeritus of Cuddapah (India)

Ego sum pastor bonus

Born:	1962.04.07 (Adoni, India)
Ordained Priest:	1989.03.01
Consecrated Bishop:	2008.03.01

Priest of Kurnool (India) (1989.03.01 – 2008.01.31)

Bishop of Cuddapah (India) (2008.01.31 – 2018.12.10)

Bishop Doraboina Moses Prakasam (68)
(2002.07.26 – 2006.12.07)

Bishop of Nellore (India)

God is my family

Born:	1957.10.02 (Mariampuram, India)
Ordained Priest:	1983.04.07
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.08.28

Priest of Cuddapah (India) (1983.04.07 – 2002.07.26)

Bishop of Cuddapah (India) (2002.07.26 – 2006.12.07)

Bishop of Nellore (India) (2006.12.07 – ...)

Bishop Prakash Mallavarapu (77) (later Archbishop)
(1998.05.22 – 2002.07.26)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Visakhapatnam (India)

Good news for all

Born:	1949.01.29 (Jadi-Jamalpur, India)
Ordained Priest:	1979.10.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.07.22

Priest of Hyderabad (India) (1979.10.11 – 1998.05.22)

Bishop of Cuddapah (India) (1998.05.22 – 2002.07.26)

Bishop of Vijayawada (India) (2002.07.26 – 2012.07.03)

General Secretary of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (2005 – 2011)

Apostolic Administrator sede plena of Nellore (India) (2005.10.22 – 2006.12.07)

Apostolic Administrator of Eluru (India) (2009.08.25 – 2013.06.13)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Visakhapatnam (India) (2012.07.03 – 2024.02.17)

Bishop Abraham Aruliah Somavarapa
(1976.10.28 – 1998.01.24)

Born:	1930.11.16 (Molasur, India)
Ordained Priest:	1959.04.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1977.04.20
Died:	2003.07.31 († 72)

Bishop of Cuddapah (India) (1976.10.28 – 1998.01.24)

Apostolic Administrator of Kurnool (India) (1991 – 1993.12.06)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh

Bangalore (↙), Kurnool (↖), Madras and Mylapore (↗), Nellore (→), Vellore (↓), Dharmapuri (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 31,019 km²

Population: 134,690 Catholics (1.9% of 6,974,917 total)

Pastoral Centres: 68 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 138 priests (107 diocesan, 31 religious), 321 religious (103 brothers, 218 sisters), 5 seminarians