Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore

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Diocese of Mangalore Dioecesis Mangalorensis ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಧರ್ಮಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary
Location
Country	India
Territory	Karnataka
Ecclesiastical province	Bangalore
Statistics
Area	5,924 km2 (2,287 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2012) 2,978,560 267,343 (9%)
Parishes	124
Information
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	1 September 1886
Cathedral	Our Lady of Rosary of Mangalore
Patron saint	Saint Joseph
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Peter Paul Saldanha
Metropolitan Archbishop	Peter Machado
Dean	Fr. John Baptist Crasta
Bishops emeritus	Aloysius Paul D'Souza
Map
Map highlighting districts falling under the Mangalore Diocese
Website
dioceseofmangalore.org/[usurped]

The Diocese of Mangalore (Latin: Diocesis Mangalorensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Mangalore, India. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bangalore. At present, it comprises the whole civil districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in Karnataka state. The area of the Diocese was collectively referred to as South Canara during the Company rule in India, in the subsequent British India after Direct rule from London commenced & in the early post-independence Bombay state, prior to the States Reorganisation Act (1956). It was established as a separate Apostolic Vicariate from the Apostolic Vicariate of Verapoly in 1853, and was promoted to a diocese on 1 September 1886.

On Monday, July 16, 2012, it lost territory when Pope Benedict XVI erected the new Roman Catholic Diocese of Udupi (made up of the three civil townships of Udipi, Karkala& Coondapoor), which will also become part of the Province of Bangalore.^[1]