In an interview to Roman Catholic news agency Misna, New Delhi Archbishop Vincent Concessao said "everyone (is) very happy at Mother Teresa's beatification, specially in Calcutta, but also in the rest of the country", where Christians are in a tiny minority to 83 percent of Hindus.

The blessed Mother Teresa, as she will be known, will be beatified in Rome on October 19 by Pope John Paul II only six years after her death - the shortest beatification process in Catholic Church history.

The ethnic Albanian nun founded a congregation and was awarded the 1979 Nobel peace prize for her lifetime work in support of the destitute in Calcutta, eastern India.

Concessao, who is also head of the conference of Indian bishops, said only a handful of Hindu extremists had misinterpreted Teresa's work, and he was confident that her posthumous elevation would not cause any trouble in India.