Diocese of Nandyal


Nandyal Diocese is a diocese of Church of South India in Andhra Pradesh state of India. The diocese is one among the 22 dioceses of Church of South India in India.

History

The first missionaries who came to Nandyal were Arthur Inman and Alfred Briton in the year 1881. These two missionaries were responsible to establish the SPG High School in 1884 and to build the Holy Cross Church in 1905 in Nandyal. These two missionaries who resided in Nandyal lived in tents and went about preaching the gospel in and around Nandyal in various villages and building churches. Their mode of travel in those days were bullock carts on most primitive roads or cart tracks. They learned the local language Telugu and traveled extensively beyond Nandyal to place like Kurnool, Giddalur, Kalasapad, Atmakur and Nandikotkur and planted churches in the villages. In this church first SPG Telugu Graduate Priest Rev. David Gnanamuthu served from 1912 to 1923, he came from Medras Christian Theological College, Madras and his son Re. John Yesudas Gnanamuthu served in this diocese.
When Dornakal diocese joined the united Church of South India in 1947, Nandyal instead chose to remain in the Indian Anglican church, under the Diocese of Calcutta. Nandyal diocese was formed on 29 April 1963, initially as part of Church of India ; with that church, it united into the Church of North India in 1970, and the Nandyal diocese eventually joined the Church of South India on 6 July 1975.
The cathedral church of the diocese is CSI Holy Cross Cathedral in Nandyal.

Bishops

The SPG High School, Nandyal, was established in the year 1882.