BELLARY [BALLARI], MISSION SUI IURIS. — It is a suffragan of Madras (India) and entrusted to the Friars Minor of the English province. Erected in 1928, it comprises the territory of the district of B. (governorate of Madras), detached from the archdiocese of Madras, and the districts of Raichur and Gulberga (State of the Nizam), detached from the diocese of Hyderabad. It has an area of 18,070 sq km and a population of 4,300,000 souls, in great majority of Canarese stock and language, with strong minorities of Telugu and Maratha peoples. Nine tenths of the populations follow Hinduism, about 400,000 are Mohammedans, and only 10,000 are Christians, of whom 3,471 are Catholics (1939 statistics) with 9 missionaries, 76 nuns and 29 native catechists, 6 parishes, 12 elementary schools with 851 pupils and 4 middle schools with 784 students. The mission maintains a small hospital, a home for the aged and 322 orphans.

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BIBL.: Guida delle Missioni Cattoliche, Rome 1935, p. 142; Souvenir of the B. Mission, Bellary 1938; Catholic Directory of India, Burma and Ceylon, Madras 1939, pp. 536-41.

Valentino Belgeri

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