Roman Catholic Diocese of Mysore

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History

• Established on 16 March 1845 as a pro-vicariate, on territory split off either from the Apostolic Vicariate of Pondicherry or from the then Apostolic Vicariate of Madura and Coromandel Coast
• Promoted on 3 April 1850 as the Apostolic Vicariate of Mysore
• Promoted on 1 September 1886 as Diocese of Mysore
• Lost territories repeatedly : on 12 June 1923 to establish Diocese of Calicut, on 26 May 1930 to establish Diocese of Salem, on 13 February 1940 to establish Diocese of Bangalore, on 3 July 1955 to establish Diocese of Ootacamund and on 16 November 1963 to establish Diocese of Chikmagalur.

  Episcopal ordinaries

• Étienne-Louis Charbonnaux, Paris Foreign Missions Society , Titular Bishop of Iassus, previously as Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of Verapoly
• Joseph-Auguste Chevalier, M.E.P. , Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis
• Jean-Yves-Marie Coadou, M.E.P. , Titular Bishop of Chrysopolis in Arabia

• Jean-Yves-Marie Coadou, M.E.P.
• Eugène-Louis Kleiner, M.E.P. , succeeding as former Titular Bishop of Lyrba as Coadjutor Bishop of Mysore ; on emeritate Titular Bishop of Tlous
• Augustin-François Baslé, M.E.P. , succeeding as former Titular Bishop of Calynda as Coadjutor Bishop of Mysore
• Hippolyte Teissier, M.E.P.
• Maurice-Bernard-Benoit-Joseph Despatures, M.E.P. ; next Bishop of Bangalore , emeritate as Titular Bishop of Benda
• René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, M.E.P. while on emeritates as Titular Bishop of Fornos major
• ; died 2014
• Kannikadass William Antony