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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 |
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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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