CSI Church, Mysore Suburban Bus Station Area

Karnataka Southern Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India covering the southern part of

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

. The other Church of South India dioceses in Karnataka are Karnataka Northern Diocese and Central Karnataka Diocese.

History

Karnataka Southern Diocese of Church of South India was formed on 1 May 1970 by the bifurcation of then Mysore diocese.

About

The diocese covers 10 districts and consists of 82 churches. The areas which comes under Karnataka southern diocese are Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Kodagu, Chikmagalur,

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, Mandya,

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

, Chamarajanagar, Kasaragod and Talavady Firkha (Tamil Nadu).

Bishops

;Erstwhile Mysore Diocese *

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(1947-1951) * Norman C. Sargant (1951-1971) ;Karnataka Southern Diocese * 1970-1978,K. M. George, ''Church of South India: Life in Union, 1947-1997'', Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge New Delhi and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999.

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, * 2009-2013, John S. Sadananda, * 2013-2021,

Mohan Manoraj Mohan Manoraj (born 16 November 1954) is the present Bishop in Karnataka Southern Diocese of the Church of South India, the sixth in succession, and occupies the Cathedra at the CSI-Shanthi Cathedral in Mangalore who has been consecrated on ...

* 2022- Present, Rt Rev Hemachandra Kumar

Notable churches

* Shanthi Cathedral, Balmatta, Mangalore On 30 October 1834, Rev J C Lehner, Rev C L Grainer and Rev Samuel Hebich established the first station of the Basel Mission in a rented house obtained from a Parsi family in Mission Street which was then known as Neereshwalya. The Collector of Mangalore at that time, H M Blair, bought a plot at what was then known as ‘Belmount’ and handed it over to the Basel Mission free of cost. On 11 December 1862, the new church building was consecrated and named the Shanthi Church. By virtue of its strategic location in the Southern Diocese, the Shanthi Church was elevated to the status of Cathedral in the year 1970. * C.S.I Sawday Memorial Church, Mandya The church is dedicated in memory of George William Sawday, a missionary born in England who arrived in Mysore in 1880 and did community service for 64 years till his death in 1944. The Sadway Memorial Church is situated in Mandya. * St. Bartholomew's Church, Mysore The site for the St. Bartholomew's Church was a gift from the Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (1799-1868), and it was consecrated in 1830. The church was constructed in 1832 with contributions from military officers and civilians. In 1847, the church was affiliated to the Anglican denomination and handed over to the Madras Government in 1852.Celebrating 175 years of Bartholomew Church
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, India. St. Paul's is the very first

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region, and the first vertical building to be constructed at the Central Maidan. St. Paul's was originally a garrison church, raised by the British India army of the Madras Government, built using prison labour. St. Paul's is an imposing structure amidst the chaos of the fish market, service bus stand, and the State Bank of India.

Institutions

*CSI Holdsworth Memorial Hospital (Mission Hospital), Mandi Mohalla, Mysore The Hospital is founded by the Wesleyan Missionaries from UK in 1906. Currently it is a 300 bed multi specialty hospital.

Educational Institutions under the Diocese

*Primary Schools -43 *Nursing Schools-30 *High Schools-6 *Junior Colleges-3 *Vocational Institutions-10 *Technical Institutions-1