Diocese of Mandya, India 🇮🇳 (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Syro-Malabar

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Mandya / Mandien(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tellicherry

Neighbouring Dioceses: Mananthavady (↙), Thamarasserry (↙), Bhadravathi (↖), Belthangady (↖), Shamshabad (↗), Hosur (→)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Holy Mother Mary

History

2010.01.18: Established as Diocese of Mandya / Mandien(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Mananthavady and became suffragan of Tellicherry)
2015.08.26: Gained territory of Bengaluru urban, Bengaluru rural, Kolar, Ramnagara, Chikkaballapur and Tumkur

Contact Info

Address: Bishop’s House, Jyothir Vikasa, Kalenahalli, Mandya, 571402 Karnataka, India

Phone: (08232) 29.10.50

Present Prelates

Bishop (2019.08.30 – ...):

Bishop Sebastian Adayanthrath (69)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Mandya (Syro-Malabar Rite)

Bishop Sebastian Adayanthrath (69)
(2019.08.30 – ...)

Bishop of Mandya of the Syro-Malabars (India)

To be broken, to be shed

Born:	1957.04.05 (Vaikom, India)
Ordained Priest:	1983.12.18
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.04.20

Priest of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1983.12.18 – 2002.02.04)

Titular Bishop of Macriana maior (2002.02.04 – 2019.08.30)

Auxiliary Bishop of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2002.02.04 – 2019.08.30)

Bishop of Mandya of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2019.08.30 – ...)

Bishop Antony Kariyil, C.M.I. (76) (later Archbishop)
(2015.08.26 – 2019.08.30)

Titular Archbishop of Macriana maior
Major-Archepiscopal Vicar emeritus of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India)

That all may be one

Born:	1950.03.26 (Cherthala, India)
Ordained Priest:	1977.12.27
Consecrated Bishop:	2015.10.18

Prior General of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (2002 – 2008)

Bishop of Mandya of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2015.08.26 – 2019.08.30)

Secretary of Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church (2016.08 [2017.01] – 2022.07?)

Major-Archepiscopal Vicar of Ernakulam–Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2019.08.30 – 2022.07.30)

Titular Archbishop of Macriana maior (2019.08.30 – ...)

Bishop George Njaralakatt (80) (later Archbishop)
(2010.01.18 – 2014.08.29)

Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Tellicherry of the Syro-Malabars (India)

To have life and have it abundantly

Born:	1946.06.23 (Kalayanthani, India)
Ordained Priest:	1971.12.20
Consecrated Bishop:	2010.04.07

Priest of Tellicherry of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1971.12.20 – 1973.03.01)

Priest of Mananthavady of the Syro-Malabars (India) (1973.03.01 – 2007.08.27)

Priest of Bhadravathi of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2007.08.27 – 2010.01.18)

Bishop of Mandya of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2010.01.18 – 2014.08.29)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tellicherry of the Syro-Malabars (India) (2014.08.29 – 2022.01.15)

Second Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (2018.02.09 – 2022.11.11)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Infant Jesus Cathedral, Mysore, Karnātaka

Mananthavady (↙), Thamarasserry (↙), Bhadravathi (↖), Belthangady (↖), Shamshabad (↗), Hosur (→)

Statistics (2019.12.31)

Area: 50,825 km²

Population: 91,900 Catholics (0.4% of 24,870,703 total)

Pastoral Centres: 34 parishes, 12 missions

Personnel: 298 priests (45 diocesan, 253 religious), 872 religious (472 brothers, 400 sisters), 9 seminarians

Syro-Malabar Diocese of

Mandya