Diocese of

Warangal

India

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Warangal / Varangalen(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Hyderabad

Neighbouring Dioceses: Hyderabad (↙), Adilabad (↖), Chanda (↑), Jagdalpur (↗), Khammam (↘), Nalgonda (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Our Lady of Fatima

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1952.12.22: Established as Diocese of Warangal / Varangalen(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Hyderabad and became suffragan of Madras and Mylapore)
1953.09.19: Became suffragan of Hyderabad
1976.05.31: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Nalgonda
1988.01.18: Lost territory to establish Diocese of Khammam

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Ordinaries

Bishops of Warangal (Roman Rite)

Bishop Udumala Bala Showreddy (71) (later Archbishop)
(2013.04.13 – 2025.02.08)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Visakhapatnam (India)

Yours truly our Lord

Born:	1954.06.18 (Ghanpur, India)
Ordained Priest:	1979.02.20
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.05.23

Priest of Warangal (India) (1979.02.20 – 2013.04.13)

Bishop of Warangal (India) (2013.04.13 – 2025.02.08)

Apostolic Administrator of Khammam (India) (2022.08.27 – 2024.02.17)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Visakhapatnam (India) (2025.02.08 – ...)

Archbishop Thumma Bala
(Apostolic Administrator 2011.03.12 – 2013.04.13)

Bishop Thumma Bala (later Archbishop)
(1986.11.17 – 2011.03.12)

Born:	1944.04.24 (Narimetta, India)
Ordained Priest:	1970.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1987.03.12
Died:	2024.05.30 (Warangal, India † 80)

Priest of Warangal (India) (1970.12.21 – 1986.11.17)

Bishop of Warangal (India) (1986.11.17 – 2011.03.12)

Apostolic Administrator of Warangal (India) (2011.03.12 – 2013.04.13)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Hyderabad (India) (2011.03.12 – 2020.11.19)

Bishop Alphonsus Beretta, P.I.M.E.
(1953.01.08 – 1985.11.30)

Born:	1911.12.26 (Brugherio, Italy)
Ordained Priest:	1934.09.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1951.04.08
Died:	1998.05.23 (Warangal, India † 86)

Bishop of Hyderabad (India) (1950.12.23 – 1953.01.08)

Bishop of Warangal (India) (1953.01.08 – 1985.11.30)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral, Hanamkonda, Telangāna

Hyderabad (↙), Adilabad (↖), Chanda (↑), Jagdalpur (↗), Khammam (↘), Nalgonda (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 27,702 km²

Population: 75,502 Catholics (0.8% of 9,360,110 total)

Pastoral Centres: 68 parishes, 6 missions

Personnel: 145 priests (71 diocesan, 74 religious), 837 religious (187 brothers, 650 sisters), 17 seminarians

Pastoral Centres

Last updated on 2026.03.30

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