Innayya was appointed Bishop of
Nalgonda on 17 April 1989 and subsequently ordained on 29 June 1989 by the principal consecrator, Bishop
Kagithapu Mariadas and co-consecrators, Archbishop
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
Diocese of Srikakulam. On 12 December 2018,
Pope Francis accepted his resignation as bishop. ==References==