The Church of Bangladesh Diocese of Kushtia is one of three dioceses of the Church of Bangladesh (a

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denomination). It was formed in 1990 out of the

Diocese of Dhaka The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dhaka ( la, Archidioecesis Dhakensis) is the Latin, main Metropolitan Metropolitan diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, but no longer the only one. It still depends on the missionary Roman Congre ...

, and its first three bishops each went on to become archbishop of Dhaka and primate & moderator of the Church of Bangladesh.

Structure

Based in

Kushtia Kushtia ( bn, কুষ্টিয়া) is a city in the Khulna Division of southwestern Bangladesh. Kushtia is the second largest municipality in Bangladesh and the eleventh largest city in the country. The second largest city in Khulna div ...

, the Diocese of Kushtia comprises two deaneries. Bollovpur Deanery, in the southwestern area of Bangladesh, is the largest deanery by membership in the Church of Bangladesh with about 5,000 members in 13 parishes. Protestant work in this area has included a hospital and schools formed by the

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in the 19th century. The deanery holds an annual spiritual revival called Dhannya Budhbar Savha. The Rajshahi deanery has 3,000 members in 31 parishes, most of them part of the

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, which grew out of English Presbyterian missions. The deanery hosts an annual spiritual revival called Helmel Sova. The moderator of the COB chairs the board of the Christian Mission Hospital Rajshahi, built by Presbyterian missionaries in 1926.

List of bishops

# Michael Baroi (1990–2003) #

Paul Sarker Paul Sishir Sarker is a Bangladeshi Protestant bishop. Since 2007, he has been the Moderator of the Church of Bangladesh, a united Protestant Church that holds membership in the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Anglican Communion. Ecc ...

(2003–2009) #

Samuel Sunil Mankhin Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

(2009–2019) # Hemen Halder (2019–present)

References

External links

Anglican Communion profile
Church of Bangladesh Anglican dioceses in Asia 1990 establishments in Bangladesh {{anglican-diocese-stub