Bangladesh Baptist Church Sangha (BBCS).Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata is the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Calcutta (1813) of the Church of North India (CNI). There are three dioceses of the Anglican Church of Bangladesh: Province of Calcutta: Metropolitan Archdiocese of Calcutta.The Roman Catholic Church in West Bengal is based in the Archdiocese of Calcutta. Province of Chittagong: Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chittagong.Province of Dhaka: Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dhaka.The Catholic Church in Bangladesh is based in the Archdiocese of Dhaka, with dioceses in Dinajpur, Mymensingh, Sylhet and Rajshahi and Archdiocese of Chittagong, with dioceses on Barisal and Khulna. It played a major role in supporting and sheltering refugees during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.ĭenominations Roman Catholic Church The Missionaries of Charity was founded by the Ottoman-born nun Mother Teresa in Calcutta in 1950. Many upper-class Bengalis in the British Indian capital Calcutta converted to Christianity during the Indian Renaissance. William Carey translated the Bible into Bengali in 1809. In 1682, there were 14,120 Roman Catholics in Bengal. Jesuit missionaries also established churches in Bandel and Dhaka. The Portuguese settlement in Chittagong hosted the first Vicar Apostolic in Bengal. Christianity was established in Bengal by the Portuguese in the 16th century.
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