Diocese of Karwar, India 🇮🇳

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Karwar / Karvaren(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Bangalore

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Joseph

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1976.01.24: Established as Diocese of Karwar / Karvaren(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Belgaum and became suffragan of Bangalore)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2024.01.13 – ...):

Bishop Duming Dias (56)

Apostolic Administrator of Shimoga (India)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Karwar (Roman Rite)

Bishop Duming Dias (56)
(2024.01.13 – ...)

Bishop of Karwar (India)
Apostolic Administrator of Shimoga (India)

Born:	1969.09.13 (Honavar, India)
Ordained Priest:	1997.05.06
Consecrated Bishop:	2024.04.09

Priest of Shimoga (India) (1997.05.06 – 2024.01.13)

Bishop of Karwar (India) (2024.01.13 – ...)

Apostolic Administrator of Shimoga (India) (2025.10.07 – ...)

Bishop Derek Fernandes (71)
(Apostolic Administrator 2019.05.01 – 2024.01.13)

Bishop Derek Fernandes (71)
(2007.02.24 – 2019.05.01)

Bishop of Belgaum (India)

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Born:	1954.05.14 (Sirsi, India)
Ordained Priest:	1979.05.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.04.20

Priest of Belgaum (India) (1979.05.05 – 2007.02.24)

Bishop of Karwar (India) (2007.02.24 – 2019.05.01)

Apostolic Administrator of Karwar (India) (2019.05.01 – 2024.01.13)

Bishop of Belgaum (India) (2019.05.01 – ...)

Bishop William Leonard D’Mello
(1976.01.24 – 2007.02.24)

Born:	1931.03.24 (Mangalore, India)
Ordained Priest:	1957.04.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1977.04.29
Died:	2011.07.19 († 80)

Bishop of Karwar (India) (1976.01.24 – 2007.02.24)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady, Karwar, Karnātaka

Goa and Daman (↑), Belgaum (↗), Shimoga (↘), Udupi (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 10,277 km²

Population: 45,949 Catholics (2.9% of 1,600,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 68 parishes, 38 missions

Personnel: 137 priests (115 diocesan, 22 religious), 241 religious (30 brothers, 211 sisters), 25 seminarians