Bishop of Calcutta

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The Bishop of Calcutta exercises episcopal leadership over the Diocese of Calcutta of the Church of North India.

The diocese was made an Episcopal See of the former Province of India and Ceylon by Letters patent on October 10, 1835 and remained as part of the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma, and Ceylon until 1970. In 1970, the Church of the Province of Myanmar, Church of Ceylon and the Church of Pakistan was separated from the province.

The Anglican dioceses in Northern India merged with the United Church of Northern India (Congregationalist and Presbyterian), The Methodist Church (British and Australian Conferences), the Council of Baptist Churches in Northern India, the Church of the Brethren in India, and the Disciples of Christ to form the Church of North India in the same year.

The diocese currently has jurisdiction over the corporation limits of Calcutta and the Districts of Hooghly & Howrah in the state of West Bengal. The bishop's seat (cathedra) is located in the city of Calcutta at St. Paul's Cathedral. The current bishop is the Right Reverend P.S.P. Raju.

[edit] Succession

This is an incomplete list of people who have served as the Bishop of Calcutta.

Tenure	Incumbent	Notes
1814 - 1823	Thomas Fanshawe Middleton
1823 - 1826	Reginald Heber
1827 - 1828	John Thomas James
1829 - 1831	John Matthias Turner
1832 - 1858	Daniel Wilson	First Metropolitan of India and Ceylon (1835)
1858 - 1866	George Edward Lynch Cotton
1866 - 1876	Robert Milman
1876 - 1898	Edward Ralph Johnson
1898 - 1902	James Edward Cowell Welldon
1902 - 1913	Reginald Stephen Copleston	Consecrated Bishop of Colombo (1876), Translated (1902)
1913 - 1919	George Alfred Lefroy	Consecrated Bishop of Lahore (1899), Translated (1913)
1919 - 1949	Foss Westcott	Consecrated Bishop of Chota-Nagpur (1905), Translated (1919)
1949 - ???	N/A
??? - 1974	Rt Rev Kenneth Daniel Wilson Anand	Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark (1974 - 1976)
1974 - ???	N/A
??? - Present	Rt Rev P.S.P. Raju