Saint Andrew's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Singapore, the country's largest cathedral. It is near City Hall, MRT Interchange in the Downtown Core, within the Central Area in Singapore's central business district. It is the Cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Singapore and the mother church of her 27 parishes and more than 55 congregations. A church existed on the site since 1836, the current church however was built in 1856–1861. The logo of the Cathedral is the St Andrew's Cross. 2006 marked the 150th anniversary of the St Andrew's Church Mission which was initiated in 1856.
The Anglican Church of India (ACI) is a union of independent Anglican churches in India. It is not currently a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion whose titular leader is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
St. Paul's Cathedral is a CNI Cathedral of Anglican background in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, noted for its Gothic architecture. It is the seat of the Diocese of Calcutta. The cornerstone was laid in 1839; the building was completed in 1847. It is said to be the largest cathedral in Kolkata and the first Episcopal Church in Asia. It was also the first cathedral built in the overseas territory of the British Empire. The edifice stands on Cathedral Road on the "island of attractions" to provide for more space for the growing population of the European community in Calcutta in the 1800s.
The Church of the Province of South East Asia, a member church of the Anglican Communion, was created in 1996, comprising the four dioceses of Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia. The current Metropolitan Archbishop of the Province is the Bishop of West Malaysia, the Most Reverend Datuk Ng Moon Hing.
The Diocese of Calcutta, Church of North India was established in 1813 as part of the Church of England. It is led by the Bishop of Calcutta and the first bishop was Thomas Middleton (1814–1822) and the second Reginald Heber (1823–1826). Under the sixth bishop Daniel Wilson (1832–1858) the see was made Metropolitan when two more dioceses in India came into being.
Diocese of West Malaysia is an Anglican diocese which covers the whole of West Malaysia. The Diocese was founded on 8 April 1970, as West Malaysia and the Diocese of Singapore split from the Diocese of Singapore and Malaya, which was dissolved.
The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Calcutta is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in India.
The Diocese of Mumbai of the Church of North India is the Anglican diocese covering metropolitan Mumbai and the state of Maharashtra. The cathedra seat of the Bishop of Mumbai is St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai.
The Church of Ceylon is the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka, as an extra-provincial diocese of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was established with the appointment of its first Bishop, James Chapman in 1845 as the Bishop of Colombo. Until 1950 it consisted only of the Diocese of Colombo but a second diocese was established at Kurunegala in that year.
The Diocese of Lucknow is a diocese of Church of North India headquartered in the city of Allahabad. The jurisdiction of the diocese mainly covers the Eastern side of Uttar Pradesh.
Ryder Devapriam was Systematic Theologian who taught during the Sixties and the Seventies at the Andhra Christian Theological College, a Protestant Regional Theologiate in Secunderabad, affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) {a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.
The CSI Tiruchirappalli Thanjavur Diocese is a diocese of Church of South India in Tamil Nadu state of India. The diocese is one among the 24 dioceses of Church of South India and was one of the first 14 dioceses to be formed at the inaugural of the Church of South India in 1947.
The Diocese of North East India is a diocese of the Church of North India, centred in Shillong, North-East India.
Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, officially The Most Reverend Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee was an Indian and Bengali speaking leader of the erstwhile Anglican denomination, known as the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon (1948-1970), which merged with other Protestant denominations to form the Church of North India. He was the fourteenth Bishop of Calcutta and the tenth Metropolitan of India. He was also the first Indian to be either the Bishop of Calcutta or the Metropolitan of India.
The Church of India, Burma and Ceylon (CIBC) was the autonomous ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion in British India.
The Diocese of Colombo is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The diocesan bishop's seat is Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour. The current Bishop of Colombo is Dhiloraj Canagasabey.
The Archdeacon of Bombay was a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Bombay, and dates back to the early 19th Century. As such he was responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within his part of the Diocese. It is now the Church of North India Diocese of Bombay.
John Perumbalath is a bishop in the Church of England. He has been Bishop of Bradwell in the Diocese of Chelmsford, since 2018. He had previously been Archdeacon of Barking in the same Diocese from 2013 to 2018. Perumbalath was born and brought up in the ancient Syrian Christian community in Kerala, South India. He moved to north India for higher studies and then teaching. He was ordained in the Church of North India in 1994.
