Udumala Bala new Bishop of Warangal Diocese

Warangal: The Episcopal Ordination of the Bishop elect of Warangal Diocese, Monsignor Udumala Bala, has been scheduled to be held on May 23 at St. Fatima Cathedral at Kazipet.

The 59-year-old Udumala Bala, who belongs to Gudur village of Station Ghanpur mandal in the district, was ordained as priest in 1979. He would be the third Bishop of the Diocese, which came into existence in 1952, after the Bishops Alphonsus Beretta and Thumma Bala.

The position was vacant for about two year after the Bishop Thumma Bala was elevated to the position of Archbishop of Hyderabad under whose jurisdiction comes the districts Khammam, Nalgonda, Adilabad,Kadapa, Kurnool, Karimnagar and Warangal.