The Bishop of Lahore was the
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of the
Church of England
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in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
from its inception in 1877 until the foundation of the
Church of India, Burma and Ceylon
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The first Anglican diocese in India was established in 1813, the Diocese of Calcutta, which became the metropol ...
in 1927;
and since then head of one of its most prominent
Diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
s. Since 1970, the diocese of Lahore has been a part of the
Church of Pakistan
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, a
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denomination.
List of Bishops
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1877
, style="text-align: center;" , 1888
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Valpy French
Thomas Valpy French (1 January 1825 – 14 May 1891) was an English Christian Missionary in India and Persia, who became the first Bishop of Lahore, in 1877, and also founded the St. John's College, Agra, in 1853.
,
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1888
, style="text-align: center;" , 1898
,
Henry Matthew
Henry James Matthew (15 January 1837 – 2 December 1898) was an eminent British Anglican colonial bishop in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Born in Cambridge, Matthew was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity Colleg ...
, Died in the act of celebrating communion at Lahore Cathedral
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1899
, style="text-align: center;" , 1912
,
George Lefroy
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Lefroy was born into an eminent Irish family in County Down in August 1854 ...
,
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1913
, style="text-align: center;" , 1932
,
Henry Durant
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,
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1932
, style="text-align: center;" , 1949
,
George Barne
,
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1949
, style="text-align: center;" , 1968
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Laurence Woolmer
,
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1968
, style="text-align: center;" , 1980
,
Inayat Masih
, First Bishop of Lahore in the Church of Pakistan
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, style="text-align: center;" , 1980
, style="text-align: center;" , 2012
,
Alexander Malik
,
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, style="text-align: center;" , 2012
, style="text-align: center;" , 2022
,
Irfan Jamil
, consecrated
coadjutor bishop
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in 2011
[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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, style="text-align: center;" , 2023
, style="text-align: center;" , incumbent
,
Nadeem Kamran
, Consecrated as a bishop in 2023
References
External links
Lahore CathedralAnglican Communion
Christianity in Lahore
1877 establishments in India
Church of India, Burma and Ceylon
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