The invention discloses a method for preparing manganese sulfate from manganese-containing ore. The method comprises the following steps: pulverizing and calcining rhodochrosite, pulverizing by a pulverizer, screening, filling a fixed bed reactor with the pulverized rhodochrosite, introducing a gas mixture containing sulfur dioxide, oxygen and water vapor, reacting for 12 hours until the difference between the sulfur dioxide concentration at the reactor inlet and the sulfur dioxide concentration at the reactor outlet is small, stopping introducing the mixed gas, washing with deionized water, and carrying out rough filtration and fine filtration to obtain a filtrate; heating the filtrate, introducing air for 3 hours, adding sulfuric acid to adjust the pH value to 2-4, filtering to remove manganese dithionate, adding ammonia water into a neutralizing tank, clarifying and precipitating, and filtering to remove impurities, thereby obtaining a manganese sulfate clear solution; and further purifying, and preparing battery-grade manganese sulfate. According to the method for preparing manganese sulfate, no reducing substance needs to be added, the process is simple and easy to operate, and the extraction rate of manganese is high.