Contact Details
Infant Jesus Church
Claret Nagar, Sidlaghatta Road
Vijayapura, Bangalore
Karnataka, INDIA
Tel.: (+91) (0)80- 7668930

Mission:                    Pastoral Ministry
                                  Education

Inception and Development
Infant Jesus Church at Vijayapura was a substation of St Jude’s Church, Karahalli. As this station was about 20 kms away from the parish, the faithful of the locality longed for a Church in their own village. Their desire was fulfilled when, the Claretians bought a piece of land 1.5 kms away from Vijayapura town, built a Church under the initiatives of Fr. Chacko Kelamparampil. The Church was blessed and dedicated on 21 April 1996.

Pastoral Ministry:
On 1 June 1998, Infant Jesus Church was bifurcated from the Karahalli parish and was erected as a new Parish. The Archbishop of Bangalore entrusted the new parish to the Claretians. The Parish has five substations – Devanahalli, Budhikere, Jangamkotte, Sulebele and Sandanahalli. Regular spiritual activities take place in all these substations.

The Congregation of the Hospitaller Sisters of Mercy opened a community at Vijayapura in 1995 with the intention of opening a dispensary in the village. Over the years, the dispensary was transformed into a rehabilitation Centre for the alcoholics and drug addicts.

Education
The Missionaries opened a boarding here for the poor boys of the area in1988. The boarding takes care of 15 needy boys with the limited facilites availble here. The boys go to the neighbouring Kannada medium school for their studies.