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{{Short description|Indian prelate of the Catholic Church (1937–2022)}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = His Excellency
| name = Addagatla Chinna Innayya
| title = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Srikakulam|Bishop of Srikakulam]]
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| caption =
| church = [[Roman Catholic Church]]
| archdiocese = [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Visakhapatnam]]
| diocese = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Srikakulam]]
| see = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Srikakulam|Srikakulam]]
| appointed = 1 July 1993
| term_start =
| term_end = 12 December 2018
| predecessor = ''Post created''
| successor = {{ill|Rayarala Vijay Kumar|de}}
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| ordination = 4 January 1965<ref name="Annuario">''Annuario Pontifico 2006'', Central Statistics Office of the Church, published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2006, pp.712 and 1957.  [https://books.google.com/books?id=zbElAQAAIAAJ&q=innayya+chinna+addagatla]</ref>
| ordinated_by =
| consecration = 29 June 1989
| consecrated_by = [[Mariadas Kagithapu]]
| rank = <!--   Personal details   -->
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1937|5|2}}
| birth_place = Ravipadu,<ref name="Annuario"/> [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[British Raj]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|4|1|1937|5|2}}
| death_place = [[Srikakulam]], India
| previous_post = [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Nalgonda|Bishop of Nalgonda]] (1989–1993)
| motto = AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM
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'''Addagatla Chinna Innayya''' (2 May 1937 – 1 April 2022)<ref name="Annuario"/> was an Indian prelate of the [[Catholic Church]] who served as Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Srikakulam|Srikakulam]], in the state of [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]], from 1993 to 2018.<ref name="Hierarchy">Catholic Hierarchy, ''Bishop Innayya Chinna Addagatla Bishop of Srikakulam'' [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/badda.html]</ref>
==Biography==
Innayya was appointed Bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Nalgonda|Nalgonda]] on 17 April 1989 and subsequently ordained on 29 June 1989 by the principal consecrator, Bishop [[Mariadas Kagithapu|Kagithapu Mariadas]] and co-consecrators, Archbishop [[Samineni Arulappa|Saminini Arulappa]] and Bishop [[John Mulagada]] at the Maria Rani Cathedral in [[Nalgonda]].
In 1993, the [[Pope John Paul II]] named him Bishop of the newly erected [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Srikakulam|Diocese of Srikakulam]].
On 12 December 2018, [[Pope Francis]] accepted his resignation as bishop.<ref>{{cite press release | url = http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/12/12/181212a.html| publisher = Holy See Press Office | accessdate = 12 December 2018 | date= 12 December 2018 | title = Resignations and Appointments, 12.12.2018}}</ref>
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