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'''[[Christianity]]''' is professed by 0.5% of the population of the state of [[Gujarat]] in India.

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right;"
|+ Christians in Gujarat
! Year !! Number !! Percentage
|-
| 2001<ref name="religion1">{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_data_finder/C_Series/Population_by_religious_communities.htm|title=Total population by religious communities|publisher=Censusindia.gov.in|access-date=20 November 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119031333/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_data_finder/C_Series/Population_by_religious_communities.htm|archive-date=19 January 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref>|| <center>284,092</center> || <center>0.56</center>
|-
| 2011<ref name="religion2">{{cite web|publisher=Census Department, Government of India|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/c-01.html|title=Indian Census 2011|access-date=25 August 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913045700/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01.html|archive-date=13 September 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>|| <center>316,178</center> || <center>0.52</center>
|-
|}

==History==
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The French or Catalan [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] missionary [[Jordanus]] Catalani was the first European to start conversion in Gujarat region. He arrived in [[Surat]] in 1320.The Portuguese controlled the area of [[Daman and Diu]] on Gujarat coast for many centuries and brought catholicism with them. IThe [[Charter Act of 1813]] passed by the [[British parliament]] curtailed the power of the [[East India Company]] and allowed entry of christian missionaries to areas controlled by the company.<ref>{{cite book|last=Viswanathan|first=Gauri|title=Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New Delhi|year=1989|page=23}}</ref>
Notable early Missionaries included [[John Taylor (missionary)|John Taylor]] M. D. (d. 1821), [[Joseph Taylor (missionary)|Joseph Taylor]] (d. 1852), his son [[J. V. S. Taylor]] (d. 1881) the translator of the Gujarati Bible "Old Version" (1861, rev. 1899), and his grandson [[George Pritchard Taylor]] (b. 1854) author of a Gujarati grammar. Missionaries established schools in the first half of the 20th century.<ref>http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/138/1/WRAP_Hardiman_9971617-050208-Christianity_and_Adivasis_2.pdf</ref> Gujarati Christian and Khristie Bandhu are [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] [[Protestant]] monthlies published from Ahmedabad. Khristie Bandhu being older publication than Gujarati Christian. ''[[Doot (magazine)|Doot]]'' is [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] [[Catholic]] monthly published from [[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]], [[Gujarat]] since January 1911.<ref name="dna 2010">{{cite web | title='Doot' has a message, launches its 100th edition in Ahmedabad | website=dna | date=11 January 2010 | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-doot-has-a-message-launches-its-100th-edition-in-ahmedabad-1333337 | access-date=13 September 2015}}</ref>

==Denominations==

===Roman Catholicism===
the catholic church in the state is governed from three ecclesiastical districts. These are
the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Ahmedabad]], the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gandhinagar]], the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Baroda]], and the [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Rajkot]]

===Protestant churches===
The protestant [[Church of North India]] has jurisdiction over
[[Diocese of Gujarat]]. The [[Methodist Church in India]], one of the largest Protestant Christian Denomination, also has a Diocese of Gujarat.[[The Salvation Army]] and [[Alliance]] churches too can be found in the state.<ref>World Christian Encyclopedia , Second edition, 2001 Volume 1, p. 370-371</ref>

===Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church===
The Malakara syrian church in the state is governed by [[Ahmedabad Orthodox Diocese|Orthodox Diocese of Ahmedabad]].

===Other denominations===
Apart from this many free or independent churches are prominent in the state including many designated as Bible Churches. Although small in number they are very strong in their ideas adhering to [[The Holy Bible]].[[Gandhinagar]], the capital city of the state of [[Gujarat]], is a home to Green City Bible Church, stationed on the prominent [[Sarkhej–Gandhinagar Highway|Sarkhej - Gandhinagar Highway]].

The state has anti-conversion legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.refdag.nl/nieuws/indiase_deelstaat_verbiedt_bekering_1_184380 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222154925/http://www.refdag.nl/nieuws/indiase_deelstaat_verbiedt_bekering_1_184380 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-22 |title=Indiase deelstaat verbiedt bekering - Kerknieuws - Kerk & Religie |publisher=Refdag.nl |date=2006-09-21 |access-date=2013-12-16 }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Christianity in India by region}}

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Christianity in Gujarat - Revision history

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