Since 1955, the Diocese of Ootacamund has carried the Gospel across the Nilgiris and into the plains of Erode — through parishes, schools, hospitals and homes that reach Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and English-speaking communities alike.

        Rooted in the hills where the Western and Eastern Ghats meet, the diocese has grown from a single mission chapel into a communion of faith spanning three states — guided in prayer, strengthened in charity, and united in service to the people of God.

       Today, the Diocese of Ootacamund continues that mission through its parishes, its schools and colleges, its hospitals and social service institutions, and the many religious congregations who call the Nilgiris home.

     Most of the diocese’s faithful are farmers and daily-wage workers, living alongside five distinct tribal communities — the Badaga, Kurumba, Thoduva, Pania and Urali — who call these hills and forests home. It is a diocese shaped as much by tea gardens and mist-covered slopes as by the quiet faith of the families who till them.