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 | ||||||||||||||
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| 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) Metropolitan of India, 1919-45 |
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| 1949 - ??? | N/A | |||||||||||||||
| ??? - 1974 | Rt Rev Kenneth Daniel Wilson Anand | Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark (1974 - 1976) | ||||||||||||||
| 1974 - 1999 | Dinesh Chandra Gorai | Consecrated Bishop of Calcutta (), Translated () | 1999 - May2008 | P S P Raju | Consecrated Bishop of Calcutta (1999), Translated (2007) | 2008 - Present | Ashok Biswas | Consecrated Bishop of Calcutta (2008)
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