This parish comes under Belthangady Varado which is a part of Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore.

During the Goa-Verapoly controversy, some families seceded from Agrar Church and built a small chapel at Gaddai, a village at the foot of the rock fortress Jamalabad.

It was pulled down to make way for a stable structure and a temporary church built adjoining the presbytery served for nearly 10 years.

[3] The post-centenary silver jubilee of Holy Redeemer Parish was held on the same day with inauguration of the present church building.

[4] Being located near Jamalabad Fort, built by Mysore ruler Tippu Sultan, this church has a history of more than 125 years.

[2] The struggle of Christians and attacks on Churches by Tippu Sultan is now hidden from history due to political reasons to show Tippu Sultan as a hero in southern part of Karnataka.

[1] The nuns of Ursuline Franciscan Congregation are teaching at St. Theresa Composite Pre University College that belonged to the parish with student strength of 638 and 31 teachers.

They are also engaged in social service, helping the poor, and counselling the troubled families.

St. Theresa High School also run by the same nuns of Ursuline Franciscan Congregation.

The community gathering, ward-wise programmes that are organized regularly in the parish strengthen the parishioners' bond.

The parish has units of Catholic Sabha, Franciscan Third Order, Pompeii Sodality, rice fund, wedding fund, burial fund, St Vincent de Paul Society, YCS, Legion of Mary, Choir group, Altar boys and also self-help groups promoted by the parish to empower the financially weaker parishioners.

The funeral mass was led by Apostolic Nuncio of India Salvatore Pennacchio with bishop of Mangalore Dr. Aloysius Paul Dsouza as the concelebrant.

Albert Pinto served the parish for 16 years and reached out to Malayali parishioners living in far-flung villages of Charmadi, Neriya, Thotattady and neighbouring villages and covered several miles on bicycle in order to serve their spiritual needs by offering Holy Mass in Malayalam.

He opened St. Theresa Girls High School as he believed that women empowerment begins with education.

The nuns of the Ursuline Franciscan Congregation were entrusted with the duties of managing the school.

Jason Monis is the principal of Holy Redeemer English Medium School.

3.5 crore and the parishioners offered 15000 voluntary man hours thereby contributing Rs.