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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 (bishop)|Thomas Middleton]] (1814–1822) and the second [[Reginald Heber]] (1823–1826). Under the sixth bishop [[Daniel Wilson (bishop)|Daniel Wilson]] (1832–1858) the see was made Metropolitan (though not made an Archbishopric) when two more dioceses in India came into being (Madras, 1835, and Bombay, 1837).

Calcutta was made a [[Metropolitan bishop|metropolitan see]] by [[letters patent]] on 10 October 1835 and in 1930 was included in the [[Church of India, Burma and Ceylon]] (from 1948 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]] were 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 [[Kolkata]] and the Districts of [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]] & [[Howrah district|Howrah]] in the state of [[West Bengal]]. The bishop's seat ([[cathedra]]) is located in the city of [[Kolkata]] at [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata|St. Paul's Cathedral]]. The current bishop is [[Paritosh Canning]].

==List of Bishops of Calcutta==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 95%;"
|-
! colspan="4" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;" | Bishops of Calcutta
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | From
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Until
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 25%;" | Incumbent
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 50%;" | Notes

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1814
| style="text-align: center;" | 1823
| '''[[Thomas Middleton (bishop)|Thomas Middleton]]'''
| Died in office.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1823
| style="text-align: center;" | 1826
| '''[[Reginald Heber]]'''
| Died in office.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1827
| style="text-align: center;" | 1828
| '''[[Thomas James (bishop)|Thomas James]]'''
| Died in office and buried at sea.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1829
| style="text-align: center;" | 1831
| '''[[John Turner (bishop)|John Turner]]'''
| Died in office.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1832
| style="text-align: center;" | 1858
| '''[[Daniel Wilson (bishop)|Daniel Wilson]]'''
| First Metropolitan of India ''ex officio'' from 1835; died in office.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1858
| style="text-align: center;" | 1866
| '''[[George Cotton]]'''
| Also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''; died in office.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1866
| style="text-align: center;" | 1876
| '''[[Robert Milman]]'''
| Also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''; died in office.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1876
| style="text-align: center;" | 1898
| '''[[Ralph Johnson (bishop)|Ralph Johnson]]'''
| Also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''; retired.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1898
| style="text-align: center;" | 1902
| '''[[James Welldon]]'''
| Also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''; resigned due to ill health and returned to the [[United Kingdom]].

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1902
| style="text-align: center;" | 1913
| '''[[Reginald Copleston]]'''
| [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|Translated]] from [[Bishop of Colombo|Colombo]]; also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1913
| style="text-align: center;" | 1919
| '''[[George Lefroy]]'''
| Translated from [[Anglican Bishop of Lahore|Lahore]]; also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''; died in office.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1919
| style="text-align: center;" | 1945
| '''[[Foss Westcott]]'''
| Translated from [[Anglican Bishop of Chota Nagpur|Chota Nagpur]]; also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1945
| style="text-align: center;" | 1950
| '''[[George Hubback]]'''
| Translated from [[Anglican Bishop of Assam|Assam]]; also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1950
| style="text-align: center;" | 1962
| '''[[Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee]]'''
| Translated from [[Diocese of Delhi (Church of North India)|Delhi]]; first native bishop; also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1962
| style="text-align: center;" | 1970
| '''[[Lakdasa De Mel]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Kurunegala|Kurunegala]]; also Metropolitan of India ''ex officio''.

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1970
| style="text-align: center;" | 1980
| '''[[Joseph Amritanand]]'''
| Translated from [[Anglican Bishop of Assam|Assam]].

|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1980
| style="text-align: center;" | 1999
| '''[[Dinesh Chandra Gorai]]'''
| Translated from [[Bishop of Barrackpore|Barrackpore]].

|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 1999
| style="text-align: center;" | 2008
| '''[[Samuel Raju]]'''
|
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 2008
| style="text-align: center;" | 2018
| '''[[Ashoke Biswas]]'''
|
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 2018(September)
| style="text-align: center;" | 2019(June)
| '''[[Probal Kanta Dutta]]'''
| Transferred from [[Bishop of Durgapur|Durgapur]].
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
| style="text-align: center;" | 2019(June)
| style="text-align: center;" |
| '''[[Paritosh Canning]]'''
| Transferred from [[Bishop of Barrackpore|Barrackpore]]
|}

==Assistant bishops==
{{anchor|Manonmani Srinivasan|Arthur Partridge}}
[[John Richardson (Bishop of Car Nicobar)|John Richardson]] was appointed assistant bishop for, and Commissary for the Metropolitan, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1950, and remained an assistant bishop of Calcutta until the [[Diocese of Andaman and Nicobar]] was erected from Calcutta diocese in 1966. At that point, he became an assistant bishop of the new diocese, where he served until 1977.<ref>{{Who's Who | id= U158933 | surname= Richardson | othernames = John }}</ref>

William Arthur Partridge (12 February 1912{{snd}}18 December 1992; called Arthur) was assistant Bishop in Nandyal from 1953 until the erection of the [[Diocese of Nandyal]] in 1963. He returned to the [[United Kingdom]] and served as an [[Assistant Bishop of Hereford]].<ref>{{Who's Who | id= U174697 | surname= Partridge | othernames = (William) Arthur }}</ref>

M. D. (Manonmani David) Srinivasan was appointed an assistant bishop of the Anglican diocese in 1964<ref>{{Church Times | title = Retrospect of 1964 | archive = 1965_01_01_016 | issue = 5316 | date = 1 January 1965 | page = 16 | accessed = 4 September 2019 }}</ref> and consecrated a bishop in January 1985.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Living Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kvkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP83|year=1965|publisher=Morehouse-Gorham Company|page=83}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Christianity}}
*[[Christianity in West Bengal]]
*[[Christianity in India]]
*[[Church of North India]]
*[[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[http://cnicalcutta.org/bishops.html CNI Diocese of Calcutta – Bishops]
*Cross, F. L. (ed.; 1957) ''The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church''. Oxford U. P.; pp. 686–88: "India, Christianity in"

==External links==
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/chatterton1924/27.html Chapter XXVII. The Mother Diocese of Calcutta, 1815] - A History of the Church of England in India, SPCK, 1924
*[http://cnicalcutta.org/ Diocese of Kolkata, CNI - Official Website]

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[[Category:Christianity in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Church of India, Burma and Ceylon]]

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