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The Friends
of the Diocese of Barrackpore |
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The diocese of Barrackpore is part of the Church
of North India, in the region of West Bengal, the diocese surrounding, but not including, the city of Calcutta.
Barrackpore, where the Cathedral Church of St.
Barthlomew is based, is an industrial town in the great Calcutta connurbation, about 20 miles north of Calcutta itself. However, most of the diocese is rural, most people living in rural villages to the North of Barrackpore, or to the south in an area called the Sunderbunds - poor agricultural land of the Ganges Delta. |
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The Diocese of Barrackpore consists of about
105 churches split into 25 Pastorates, under the oversight of Bishop Brogan Malakar. The Diocese also has a number of schools, training colleges and development agancies supporting the work of the pastorates (the equivalent to parishes). |
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The Friends of the Diocese of Barrackpore
supports the work of the diocese in number of ways:
We provide a limited amount of finance towards
the day to day running of the diocese.
We support specific projects within the diocese.
This has included building a parsonage/education centre in Kumrakhali, providing suitable transport for clergy etc.
We sponsor clergy through their training.
Recently, we have provided considerable
assistance to those affected by the devastating West Bengal floods, when over 1200 people were killed. |
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The Friends of the Diocese
of Barrackpore provide a prayer letter and other information regularly to members. We have also recently produced the group bible study booklet "Mission Matters", price £1.30, inc P&P.
If you want to know more,
please contact us. |
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Please pray for the committee of the friends who
include Bernard Noon as chairman, Roy Lorrain- Smith as secretary, David Turner as treasurer and Les Ireland as publicity officer. |
