Location :
Our Lady of Vailankanni Church, Farla is located in Navoor village of Bantwal Taluk of Dakshina Kannada district.
The beginning :
Fr. Benedict Monterio, SAC, a Pallottine Priest had been working in the Diocese of Mangalore from 1988 helping in different parishes. From June 1992 he stayed in a rented house and helped in the Agrar parish. The unrelenting efforts of Fr. Benedict bore fruit when the Most Rev. Basil D’Souza, the Bishop of Mangalore finally decided to erect a new Parish at Farla, bifurcating the Agrar Parish and entrusted it to the Pallottines. A three acre plot of land was purchased at Farla on February 02, 1993.
Fr. Benedict built the Shrine of Our Lady of Vailankanni and it was blessed by the Bishop on May 31, 1993.
The newly constructed house was blessed and inaugurated by Most Rev. Basil D’Souza, the Bishop of Mangalore on January 18, 1994 and was canonically erected on the same day by the decree of the Bishop. The foundation stone for a Church was blessed by the Bishop of Mangalore on October 7, 1994. The formal decree of erection of the parish came to effect on December 8, 1994 with 130 families from Agrar and 6 of Allipade parishes.
The new church and the belfry were blessed by Most Rev. Aloysius Paul D’ Souza, the new Bishop of the Diocese, on May 01, 1997 and was inaugurated by the Provincial Superior, Very Rev. Fr. Christudhas SAC.
Parish Priests who have served in the parish :
- Fr Benedict Monteiro SAC (1994-1999)
- Fr Valerian Fernandes SAC
- Fr Jacob Alvares SAC
- Fr Charles Fernandes SAC
- Fr Walter Menezes SAC
- Fr Manohar Joshly Noronha SAC (till 2016)
- Fr Paul Francis Coutinha SAC (2016 - 2018)
- Fr Claudy Stany Vas SAC (2018 - 2020)
- Fr. John Prakash Pereira (from 2020 onwards)
(Complete list will be updated soon)
Compiled by Catholic Time Staff with inputs from bangalorepallottines.com
Last updated in Dec 2020.
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