Pune's only church to conduct Telugu mass

Pune's only church to conduct Telugu mass

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Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE | Saturday, 25 July 2015 AT 11:36 PM IST

    

St Joseph's Church, christian community, Telugu mass, Tamil mass, st community connect, Ghorpadi,Pune, Camil Parkhe

GHORPADI: St Joseph’s Church in Ghorpadi is a unique parish in Pune diocese. It is the only church in the city having a sizeable number of Telugu-speaking parishioners.

Therefore, a weekly mass in Telugu is celebrated in the church every Sunday morning. Like a few other city churches, Tamil mass is also celebrated in the church on every Sunday morning. Parish priest Fr Jesu Anthony is assisted by Fr Pravin Pawar, Principal of St Joseph’s School. Prior to 1950, Catholic residents of Ghorpadi had to visit St Patrick’s Cathedral for all religious services.

Since 1952, mass was celebrated in a hall at Ghorpadi and a chapel dedicated to St Joseph was built there in 1959. The chapel was given the status of a church in 1986 with Fr Peter Dias as its first parish priest.

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Ghorpadi, B T Kawade Road, Pingale Vasti, Mundhwa, Keshavnagar, Upper and Lower Ghorpadi, Gulmohor Park, Balajinagar, Vikas Nagar and Koregaon Park


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