SFS - Church

ARCHBISHOP Most Rev. Dr. Peter Machado		parish priest Rev. Fr. Thazhathukunnel Joshy MSFS
*Welcome to st. francis de Sales Church*

Patron Saint

Francis de sales was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Blessed Pius IX in 1877. In 1923, Francis was recognized as the patron saint of writers and journalists by Pope Pius XI. The Salesians of Don Bosco, the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales,... More+

Church History

St. Francis De sales parish (MSFS) is one of the young parish in the archdiocese of Bangalore. It was officially erected as the parish in 1984 by his grace late Archbishop Arogyaswamy then Archbishop of Bangalore.

It was a tiny parish and masses were celebrated in a farm house and then shifted to school building. It took almost 20 years to build the present New Church in the year 1998 on the 16th of August, by the then parish priest Fr. Mathew Kuzhuppakalam.

Now at present in the last 10 years the church is rapidly growing because of the Software companies and the industries around. Added to that we have in the campus SFS School and college which in another added attraction from Catholics to come

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