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Diocese of Kurnool Dioecesis Kurnoolensis कुरनूल के सूबा | |
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Location | |
Country | India |
Territory | Andhra Pradesh districts of Kurnool and Anantapur |
Metropolitan | Hyderabad |
Statistics | |
Area | 43,000 km2 (17,000 sq mi) |
Population - Catholics | (as of 2010) 82,484 |
Parishes | 52 |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral |
Co-cathedral | St. Teresa’s Co-Cathedral |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Johannes Gorantla, O.C.D. |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Anthony Poola |
Website | |
Website of the Diocese |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kurnool (Latin : Dioecesis Kurnoolensis) is a diocese located in the city of Kurnool in the ecclesiastical province of Hyderabad in India.
Jesuit missionaries evangelized this region until 1773, when missionaries from the Paris Foreign Missions Society took over the mission. [1]
The current Diocese of Kurnool was erected from the Diocese of Nellore on 12 June 1967.[ citation needed ]
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