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The '''Diocese of North East India''' is a [[diocese]] of the [[Church of North India]], centred in [[Shillong]], [[North-East India]].<br />
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The Diocese of Assam, of the (Anglican) [[Church of India, Burma and Ceylon]], was created from the [[Diocese of Calcutta (Church of North India)|Diocese of Calcutta]] in 1915.<ref>[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/chatterton1924/26.html Anglican History – A History of the Church of England in India – Chapter XXVI: The Diocese of Assam, 1915]</ref> In 1970, it became a diocese of the united [[Church of North India]]; and had its current name by 1986.<ref name="talibuddin">[http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?prodstock=25465 India Club – An Introduction to the History of the Anglican Church in North-East India – Contents, Chapter 4] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321234836/http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?prodstock=25465 |date=21 March 2012 }}</ref><br />
==Bishops of Assam==<br />
The Church of India, Burma and Ceylon diocese had three bishops prior to Indian independence:<br />
*1915–1924: [[Herbert Pakenham-Walsh]] (1871–1959)<br />
*1924–1945: [[George Hubback]] (1882–1955)<br />
*1946–1948: [[Nirod Biswas]]<br />
and three after:<br />
*1949–1962: [[Joseph Amritanand]]<br />
*1963–1967: [[Eric Samuel Nasir]]<br />
*1968–1970: [[Ariel Victor Jonathan]]<br />
==Bishops of North East India==<br />
The Church of North India diocese has had five bishops:<br />
*1970–1986: D. D. Pradhan, Bishop of Assam<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRzkAAAAMAAJ&q=assam+diocese |title = Nepali Around the World: Emphasizing Nepali Christians of the Himalayas|last1 = Perry|first1 = Cindy L.|year = 1997}}</ref><br />
*1986–1998: [[Ernest William Talibuddin]]<ref>http://www.oremus.org/acp/1998.txt</ref><br />
*1999{{snd}}aft. 2015: [[Purely Lyngdoh]]<ref>http://www.oremus.org/acp/1999.txt</ref><br />
*c. 2017: [[Pradip Kamble]]<ref>[https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/337862/ACP-Jan-July-2019.pdf]</ref><br />
*c. 2017{{snd}}present: [[Michael Herenz]]<ref>[https://new.cnisynod.org/visit-to-the-diocese-of-north-east-india/]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
==References==<br />
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[[Category:Church of North India]]<br />
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