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The National Council of Churches in India is an ecumenical forum for Protestant and Orthodox churches in India. [4] It provides a platform for member churches and organizations to act on common issues relating to Christianity in India.
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] There are 10,701 parishes that make up 174 dioceses and eparchies, which are organised into 29 ecclesiastical provinces .
India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited. [3] [4] It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. [5] In 2014, India Today launched a new online opinion-orientated site called the DailyO. [6]
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 India church struggles with leadership. When the church was first independent from foreign missions the leadership had conflicts rooted in "regional, family, and other social considerations…," which led to lawsuits over church power. India has a lack of qualified pastors. Rev. Dr.
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.
Santhome church. San Thome Church, officially known as St Thomas Cathedral Basilica and National Shrine of Saint Thomas, is a minor basilica of the Catholic Church and the Seat of power of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madras and Mylapore in India, at the Santhome neighbourhood of Chennai, in Tamil Nadu.
The following is a list of living Catholic bishops of India sorted by ecclesiastical province and diocese. The bishops of India include two major archbishops, one each of the Syro-Malabar and the Syro-Malankara church, and one of the four titular patriarchs of the Latin Church. There are 6 Indian cardinals.