Bishop of Lahore (Church of Pakistan)

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The Bishop of Lahore was the Ordinary of the Church of England in Lahore from its inception in 1877 until the foundation of the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon in 1927; [1] and since then head of one of its most prominent Dioceses. Since 1970, the diocese of Lahore has been a part of the Church of Pakistan, a United Protestant denomination.

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List of Bishops

Bishops of Lahore
FromUntilIncumbentNotes
18771888 Valpy French
18881898 Henry Matthew Died in the act of celebrating communion at Lahore Cathedral
18991912 George Lefroy
19131932 Henry Durant
19321949 George Barne
19491968 Laurence Woolmer
19681980 Inayat Masih First Bishop of Lahore in the Church of Pakistan [2]
19802012 Alexander Malik
20122022 Irfan Jamil consecrated coadjutor bishop in 2011 [3]
2023incumbent Nadeem Kamran Consecrated as a bishop in 2023

References

  1. ↑ The Indian Year Book. Bennett, Coleman & Company. 1940. p.  455. The three dioceses thus formed have been repeatedly subdivided, until in 1930 there were fourteen dioceses, the dates of their creation being as follows : Calcutta 1814; Madras 1835; Bombay 1837; Colombo 1845; Lahore 1877; Rangoon 1877; Travancore 1879; Chota Nagpur 1890; Lucknow 1893; Tinnevelly 1896; Nagpur 1903; Dornakal 1912; Assam 1915; Nasik 1929.
  2. ↑ Who's Who: Inayat Masih. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U157244. ISBN   978-0-19-954089-1 . Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Marshall, Azad. "The Church of Pakistan (United)" (Ch. 29) in Ian S. Markham, J. Barney Hawkins, IV, Justyn Terry & Leslie Nuñez Steffensen (eds) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion (p. 335)


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