Pope John XXIII established the first Syro-Malabar Ordinariate of Chanda on 31 March 1962 with Msgr. Januarius Palathuruthy CMI as its first Ecclesiastical Superior with the faculties of Apostolic Exarch. it was carved out from the Archdiocese of Nagpur. The "Ordinariate" was raised to the status of an Apostolic Exarchate on 29 July 1968 and and Msgr. Januarius was made its Apostolic Exarch. On 26 February 1977 Paul VI raised it to the status of a diocese and Msgr. Januarius was appointed its first bishop. It comprises the civil districts of Wardha, Chandrapur and GadchiroH in Maharashtra state and Adilabad in Andra Pradesh. On 3 July 1990 Mar Vijay Anand Nedumpuram CMI succeeded Bishop Januarius as its second Bishop. On 28 March 1995 Bishop Januarius was called to his eternal rest. In the year 1999 the civil district of Adilabad was bifurcated from the Diocese of Chanda and the new Diocese of Adilabad was established. On 24 October 2014 Bp. Ephrem Nariculam succeeded Bishop Vijay Anand CMI as the bishop of Chanda.