Barnabas Dejen Mondal (died 29 June 2019) was a Bangladeshi churchman who was the first moderator of the synod of the Church of Bangladesh, and the first

bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

of the

Church of Bangladesh Diocese of Dhaka The Church of Bangladesh Metropolitan Diocese of Dhaka is the metropolitan and main diocese of Church of Bangladesh (a United Protestant denomination) that was erected in 1956 by dividing the Diocese of Calcutta; the diocese was originally call ...

. The Church of Bangladesh is a

United Protestant A united church, also called a uniting church, is a Christian denomination, church formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestantism, Protestant Christian denominations. Historically, unions of Protest ...

denomination formed as a result of a merger between Anglican and Presbyterian denominations in the region. In 1965, he became the priest of Oxford Mission Church. He was consecrated as bishop in early 1975. Bishop Mondal died in a hospital in the capital

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

on 29 June 2019, at the age of 82.

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Anglican bishops of Dhaka Anglican archbishops in Asia 2019 deaths Year of birth missing {{Anglican-bishop-stub