St Joseph Church – Vepery
Address:
St Joseph ChurchVepery
No.30, Vepery High Road,
Chennai – 600 007.
Brief History:
This Church was bifurcated from Vepery and
created as a Parish on 1st August 1930 by Archbishop of Madras, Most Rev Dr
Eugene Mederlet. The first Parish Priest was Fr Mc Cormacks. It is memorable to
note that two of the Parish Priests who had served in this Parish viz. Fr S
Arulappa and Fr PC Balaswamy were elevated to be the Archbishop of Hyderabad
and Bishop of Nellore respectively. The Church which was renovated recently,
celebrated its Platinum Jubilee on 21st of August 2005.
Msg. P.Thomas was the Parish Priest from 1931-1939 when he was ordained as Bishop (late Archbishop of Bangalore Thomas Pothacamury) and was the first Bishop of the newly formed Guntur Diocese, which was formed from bifurcating the Nellore Diocese.
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