The Evangelical Church of India (ECI) is a

Christian denomination A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worsh ...

in India. It operates the Allahabad Bible Seminary in

Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

, the Calcutta Bible Seminary in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

and the Madras Theological Seminary and College in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

. Its came into existence because of the activity of the

Oriental Missionary Society One Mission Society (formerly known as Oriental Missionary Society and OMS International) is an Evangelical Christian missionary society which was founded in 1901 by Charles, Lettie Cowman, Juji Nakada, and Ernest A. Kilbourne. It is currently o ...

, (One Mission Society or OMS). The church has more than 100,000 members. The denomination is relatively progressive and, in 2012, ordained its first openly transgender pastor.

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