Diocese of Lucknow (Church of North India)


The Diocese of Lucknow is an Anglican diocese of Church of North India headquartered in the city of Allahabad. The jurisdiction of the diocese mainly covers the Eastern side of Uttar Pradesh.

History

Diocese of Lucknow was established in 1893 carving it out from the Diocese of Calcutta. The Diocese was given the name of Lucknow though the mother Cathedral, All Saints Cathedral and Diocesan Headquarters stayed in Allahabad. It was because Allahabad was situated within the legally defined territories of the Diocese of Calcutta.
It practices all the doctrines and liturgy of Church of England in India. The dioceses undertakes all the Anglicanism, United Society Partners in the Gospel formerly the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel, London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society in India
formerly the Church Missionary Society. It is the biggest Dioceses in Uttar Pradesh and one of the oldest dioceses in north India.

Bishops

The Bishop of Lucknow was the Ordinary of the Anglican Diocese of Lucknow from its inception in 1893 until the foundation of the Church in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon in 1927 and it's consequent merger with other Protestant Churches to form the Church of North India in 1970; and since then head of one of the united church's biggest Dioceses.
Church of North India