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The Catholic Church in India is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope. There are over 20 million Catholics in India, [ 1 ] representing around 1.55% of the total population, [ 2 ] and the Catholic Church is the single largest Christian church in India . [ 1 ]
The Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment was created in 1813 [1] to provide Anglican priests for that part of the British Empire.It initially operated under the auspices of the East India Company The Sees of Madras and Bombay were added to that of Calcutta in 1833.
The relations between the Catholic Church and the state have been constantly evolving with various forms of government, some of them controversial in retrospect. In its history, the Church has had to deal with various concepts and systems of governance, from the Roman Empire to the medieval divine right of kings, from nineteenth- and twentieth-century concepts of democracy and pluralism to the ...
Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local ( congregational ) forms of organization as well as denominational . A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) is the permanent association of the Catholic bishops of India. [1] It was established in September 1944, in Chennai. The CBCI Secretariat was located in Bangalore until 1962, when it was shifted to the national capital, New Delhi. The CBCI is a member of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences.
The Catholic Church takes the position that the Church itself has a proper role in guiding and informing consciences, explaining the natural law, and judging the moral integrity of the state, thereby serving as check to the power of the state. [143] The Church teaches that the right of individuals to religious freedom is an essential dignity.
The major Pentecostal churches in India are the Indian Pentecostal Church of God, [222] the Assemblies of God, The Pentecostal Mission, [223] [224] the New Apostolic Church with 1,448,209 members, [222] the New Life Fellowship Association with 480,000 members, the Manna Full Gospel Churches with 275,000 members, [222] and the Evangelical Church ...
Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical hierarchy, or ecclesiocracy may refer to: Theocracy, a form of religious State government; Hierocracy (medieval), papal temporal supremacy over the State; Ecclesiastical polity, the government of a Christian denomination Hierarchy of the Catholic Church