Diocese of Shimoga, India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Shimoga / Shimogaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Bangalore

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Patron Saint: Sacred Heart of Jesus

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1988.11.14: Established as Diocese of Shimoga / Shimogaën(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangalore and Diocese of Chikmagalur and became suffragan of Bangalore)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2014.03.19 – ...):

Bishop Francis Serrao, S.J. (65)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Shimoga (Roman Rite)

Bishop Francis Serrao, S.J. (65)
(2014.03.19 – ...)

Bishop of Shimoga (India)

Service of faith fullness of life

Born:	1959.08.15 (Moodbidri, India)
Ordained Priest:	1992.04.30
Consecrated Bishop:	2014.05.07

Bishop of Shimoga (India) (2014.03.19 – ...)

Bishop Henry D’Souza (75)
(Apostolic Administrator 2012.10.16 – 2014.03.19)

Bishop Gerald Isaac Lobo (75)
(1999.12.03 – 2012.07.16)

Bishop of Udupi (India)

Service and faith, fullness in life

Born:	1949.11.12 (Agrar, India)
Ordained Priest:	1977.05.05
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.03.20

Priest of Mangalore (India) (1977.05.05 – 1999.12.03)

Bishop of Shimoga (India) (1999.12.03 – 2012.07.16)

Bishop of Udupi (India) (2012.07.16 – ...)

Bishop Ignatius Paul Pinto (later Archbishop)
(1988.11.14 – 1998.09.10)

Ora et labora

Born:	1925.05.18 (Bantval, India)
Ordained Priest:	1952.08.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1989.01.31
Died:	2023.02.08 (Bangalore, India † 97)

Bishop of Shimoga (India) (1988.11.14 – 1998.09.10)

General Secretary of Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (1994 – 1998)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Bangalore (India) (1998.09.10 – 2004.07.22)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Sacred Heart Cathedral, Shimoga, Karnātaka
Minor Basilica: Basilica of Our Lady of Health, Harihar, Karnātaka

Udupi (↙), Karwar (↖), Bellary (↗), Kurnool (→), Bangalore (↘), Chikmagalur (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 22,893 km²

Population: 17,944 Catholics (0.3% of 5,362,795 total)

Pastoral Centres: 21 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 88 priests (46 diocesan, 42 religious), 264 religious (42 brothers, 222 sisters), 9 seminarians