Diocese of Dornakal of the Church of South India
Dornakal Diocese is a diocese of Church of South India in Telangana state of India.The diocese is among 22 dioceses of the Church of South India.The diocese mainly covers the pastorates in Warangal, Nalgonda, East Godavari and Khammam districts and also has churches in Odissha state. History. The Diocese of Dornakal was formed on December 1912. Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah was the first Indian Anglican Bishop of Dornakal and was a leader in the grassroots movements of conversion to Christianity in South Asia during the early twentieth century. He was  the first and only native Indian bishop of an Anglican diocese from 1912 until his death in 1945 The Diocese of Dornakal began on 29 December 1912, when Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah was consecrated as its first bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. There were eleven bishops of the Province of India taking part in the act of Consecration. Azariah was the first Indian to be consecrated a bishop in the Anglican Communion When the Diocese of Dornakal was first formed in 1912, it was a small diocese in the southeast corner of the Nizam's dominions. A few years  later, it was enlarged by the addition of the District of Dummagudem, in which the Church Missionary Society was working. By this resolution all the Mission Districts of both the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) in the Telugu country were placed under the Episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Dornakal. The present Diocese of Dornakal includes a large portion of the Kistna district, together with the part of the Godavery district named Dummagudem; parts of the Kurnool and Cuddapah districts to the south occupied by the Society for the Propagation of  the Gospel (SPG); also the areas in the Hyderabad State occupied by the Indian Missionary Society of Tinnevelly (IMST), the Singareni Mission, the Khammamett Mission (formerly under the Church Missionary Society), and the recently formed Dornakal Diocesan Mission, which has started work in the area in the Mulag Taluq that has not been evangelized. Funding. The former president bishop of the church Rt. Rev. Dr Vadapalli Prasada Rao stated that the church is run entirely on Indian funds, which he says helps ensure the churches continued independence from the "Anglican Communion". Diocese of Dornakal of the Church of South India