Diocese of Dornakal of the Church of South India

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{{Infobox diocese
| jurisdiction = Diocese
| name = Dornakal
| image = Ephiphany Cathedral Dornakal Diocese, Dornakal.jpg
| caption = Epiphany Cathedral, Dornakal

| country = [[India]]
| province = [[Church of South India]]

| congregations =
| members =

| cathedral = Epiphany Cathedral, Dornakal
| priests =

| bishop = ''[[The. Rt. Rev. Kodirekka Padma Rao]]''


| website =
}}

'''Dornakal Diocese''' is a diocese of [[Church of South India]] in [[Telangana]] state of [[India]].The diocese is one among the 22 dioceses of [[Church of South India]] in [[India]].The diocese mainly covers the pastorates in [[Warangal]], [[Nalgonda]], [[East Godavari]] and [[Khammam]] districts and also has churches in [[Odissha]] state.

==History==

The Diocese of [[Dornakal]]<ref>[https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221343108987303 K. J. G. Sundaram (1931): A Deccan Village in India, Journal of Geography, 30:2, 49-57]</ref>
was formed on December 1912. [[Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah]] was the first Indian Anglican Bishop of [[Dornakal]] and was a leader of grassroots movements of conversion to Christianity in South Asia during the early twentieth century. He was the first and only native Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese from 1912 until his death in 1945<ref>Harper, S. B., I''n the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India''. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2000.</ref>

The Diocese of Dornakal began on 29 December 1912, when [[Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah]] was consecrated its first bishop in [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta]]. There were eleven bishops of the Province of India taking part in the act of Consecration. Azariah was the first Indian to be consecrated a bishop in the Anglican Communion<ref>Chatterton, Eyre. ''The Diocese of Dornakal, 1912. A Diocese of Mass Movements''.
<u>IN,</u>: <u>[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/chatterton1924/25.html Project Canterbury: A History of the Church of England in India since the early days of the East India Company]</u>, London, SPCK, 1924</ref>

When the Diocese of [[Dornakal]] was first formed in 1912, it was a small diocese in the southeast corner of the Nizam's dominions. A few years later, it was enlarged by the addition of the District of Dummagudem, in which the Church Missionary Society was working. By this resolution all the Mission Districts of both the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) in the Telugu country were placed under the Episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Dornakal. The present Diocese of Dornakal includes a large portion of the Kistna district, together with the part of the Godavery district named Dummagudem; parts of the Kurnool and Cuddapah districts to the south occupied by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG); also the areas in the Hyderabad State occupied by the Indian Missionary Society of Tinnevelly (IMST), the Singareni Mission, the Khammamett Mission (formerly under the Church Missionary Society), and the recently formed Dornakal Diocesan Mission, which has started work in the area in the Mulag Taluq that has not been evangelized.

==Bishops==
*[[Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah]] (1912–45)
* [[A. B. Elliott]] (1945-1955)
** [[Yeddu Muthyalu]], assistant bishop (1945–1947; became first [[Diocese of Krishna-Godavari of the Church of South India|Bishop in Krishna-Godavari]])
* [[P. Solomon]] (1956-1979)
* [[G. S. Luke]] (1980-1985)
* [[D. N. Samuel]] (1986-1996)
* [[A. Rajarathnam]] (1997-2006)
* [[B. S. Devamani]] (2006-2012)
* [[V. Prasada Rao]] (2012 - 7.9.2020)
*''[[K. Padma Rao]] (20.06.2021- Present)

==Group church councils and chairmen==
*Rev. I. H. S. Mohan Rao, Kothagudem GCC
*Rev. K. Padma Rao, Sagar GCC
*Rev. Irri John Wesley, Kodad GCC
*Rev. B. Ravindra, Khammam GCC
*Rev. G. Ramesh, Sathupalli GCC
*Rev. Ananda Rao, Dummagudem GCC
*Rev. P. Sunil, Dornakal GCC

==Churches==
*CSI Epiphany Cathedral Church, [[Dornakal]]
*St. Andrew’s Church, Kothagudem
*St. Mary's Church, Khammam
*St. Paul's Church , Aswapuram
*St. Paul's Church, P.V. Colony
*Christ Church, [[Bhadrachalam]]
*St. Peter's Church [[Kodad]]
*St. Paul's Church, [[Mahabubabad]]
*St. Paul's Church, Palvancha
*St. Timothy Church, Huzurnagar
*St. John's Church, Yellandu
*St. John's Church, J.K colony, Yellandu
*St. Philip's Church, Nava bharat
*Christ Church, Indira Nagar, KMM
*St. Mark's Church, NSP, Khammam
*St. Luke Church, Singabhupalem, KTDM
*St. Thomas Church, Ramavaram, KTDM
*Christ Church, Parsibandam, khammam
*St. John's Church v.m.banjara,
*St. Peter's church, Madiripuram, Near Bangla
*Church Of South India, Miryalaguda, Dornakal Diocese

== Educational institutions ==
*Bishop Azariah High School for Girls, Dornakal
*Bishop Azariah Junior college for Girls, Dornakal
*Dornakal Diocese. Degree College, Dornakal
*Dornakal Diocese. Junior College, Dornakal
*Dornakal Diocese. High School, Dornakal
*St. Mary's High school, [[Khammam]]
*St. Andrew's High School, [[Kothagudem]]
*St. Christ Church Primary School, [[Bhadrachalam]]
*St. Peter's Primary School, Thoorubaka, [[Bhadrachalam]]
*Dorkal Diocese Hostel, Chadrupatla
* Mission High school (Aided), [[Madiripuram]]

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal
| author=M. Edwin Rao (Compiled)
| title=Prophet Azariah and the Blessed Dornakal: A centenary revisit 1912-2012
| year=2012
}}
* {{cite book
|author = K. M. George
|title = Church of South India: Life in Union, 1947-1997
|year = 1999
|isbn = 978-8172145125
|oclc = 1039224320
}}
* {{cite journal
| author=Isaac Ethan Paul(Compiled)
| title=The Glorious Fifty Years of The Epiphany Cathedral
| year=1988
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=VmJVQwAACAAJ
}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Anglican dioceses in Asia]]
[[Category:Church of South India dioceses|Dornakal]]
[[Category:Christianity in Telangana]]
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[[Category:1912 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Church of India, Burma and Ceylon]]

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