The Congregation of Holy Cross is a Catholic congregation of missionary priests and brothers founded in 1837 by Blessed Basil Moreau, in Le Mans, France. Members of the congregation add the nominal letters C.S.C. after their names to indicate that they are members of the congregation.
Christians in Bangladesh account for 0.4% of the nation's population as of 2011 census. Together with Judaism and Buddhism, they account for 0.7% of the population. Islam accounts for 90.4% of the country's religion, followed by Hinduism at 8.5% as per 2011 census.
Bengali Christians are adherents of Christianity among the Bengali people. Christianity took root in Bengal after the arrival of Portuguese voyagers in the 16th century. It witnessed further conversions among the Bengali upper-caste elite during the 19th century Bengali Renaissance.
St. Gregory's High School & College, Bangladesh, is a Catholic High School founded in Dhaka, British India, in 1882 by Gregory De Groote, a Belgian Benedictine priest. The school, located on Subhas Bose Avenue of Luxmibazar neighborhood of old Dhaka, was named after Pope Gregory I (540–604). Prodip Placid Gomes C.S.C is the current principal of the institution.
Holy Cross Girls' High School is a Catholic primary and secondary school for girls, located at Tejgaon in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It serves students from class 1 through class 10. Although run by the Roman Catholic Church, the school is open to students of all religions.
Tejgaon is a thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is in the centre of Dhaka, the capital. In 2006, the boundaries of the thana were redrawn when Tejgaon Industrial Area Thana was created out of the former larger area and again in 2009 when Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Thana was created.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka is the Latin, main Metropolitan Metropolitan diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, but no longer the only one. It still depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chittagong, renamed Chattogram on 28 December 2018, is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in Bangladesh. The Archdiocese of Chittagong is the metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province of Chittagong, which includes the suffragan dioceses of Roman Catholic Diocese of Khulna and Roman Catholic Diocese of Barisal, both in Bangladesh. However it remains dependent on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Vellore is a diocese located in the city of Vellore in the Ecclesiastical province of Madras and Mylapore in India.
Holy Rosary parish is a church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Faisalabad, in Warispura, Pakistan.
Risen Christ Catholic Church is located in Air Itam, Penang, Malaysia. The church was established in 1968 and is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Penang.
Paulinus Costa was Roman Catholic Archbishop of the archdiocese of Dhaka from 2005 until his retirement on 22 October 2011.
The Temple of Joy Kali in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is situated between Thathari Bazar and Wari, on a road itself named after this temple, at 24 Joy Kali Temple street. Joy Kali Temple is a Hindu temple devoted to Goddess Kali Ma. People of Hindu religion of every age come to this temple to worship Goddess Kali. The statue of Goddess Kali is of great significance to the Hindus. The visitors and committee members of this temple gather money for occasions, where sweets are later distributed among them which is called 'Prasad'.
Archbishop House also known as Kakrail Church is an architecturally significant residence and church situated in Kakrail, Ramna Thana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was first built in 1925, with a chapel on the east end. It had evolved 1947 in Lakkibazar and in 1957 it transferred to Kakrail. The present church was renovated in 1976. There are Gothic and Renaissance motifs inside and outside the structure and it is considered to be a fine example of post colonial fusion architecture. The Daily Star reported in 2009 that official listing as a national heritage site was imminent, but six years later the Department of Archaeology was still preparing the list of buildings to be preserved.
Patrick D'Rozario is a Bangladeshi prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Dhaka from 2011 to 2020. He became a cardinal in 2016, the first from Bangladesh. He led other dioceses in Bangladesh from 1995 to 2010.
Our Lady of Rosary Church is a Roman Catholic, Kallakurichi, situated in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu, India. Our Lady of Rosary Church, Kallakurichi has been recognized as a Parish under Diocese of Pondicherry.
Gervas Rozario, D.D. was born on Aug. 15, 1951, at Satiangasa village in Natore. His parents were Peter Rozario and Agatha Costa. He is bishop of Roman Catholic diocese of Rajshahi. In his diocese has 59,630 Catholics.
Marino Rigon was an Italian-Bangladeshi Xaverian missionary priest popularly known as the "friend of Bengalis". Rigon was born in Villaverla, Vicenza, Italy in 1925. In 1953 he moved to the East Bengal province of Pakistan and during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, where he gave shelter and cared for the injured. He lived in Bangladesh as a missionary for sixty years preaching the Gospel among Catholics using the local language (Bengali) and making a tremendous contribution to the Catholic Church of Bangladesh.
Dom Antonio de Rozario was a Christian missionary from Bengal. He was the first writer of Bangla prose.
