The following shows the Christian denominations present in

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, along with number of churches and approximate number of Church members.

Anglican

* Church of North India (CNI) ** Diocese of Northeast India (275) 50,000 * Church of South India

Baptist

''Note: The membership for Baptist churches mostly denote the adult baptized members of Churches and therefore do not include non-baptized family members as per Baptist Church Doctrine and beliefs.'' * Baptist Church of Mizoram (677) 173,988 * Boro Baptist Church Association (219) 47,000 *

Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India is a Baptist Christian denomination in North East India. It is a member of the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation. It is also a member body of the North East India Christian Council, the regional c ...

(CBCNEI) **

Arunachal Baptist Church Council The Arunachal Baptist Church Council (ABCC) is a Baptist Christian denomination in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India. ABCC is led by Mr. Pema Tshetan, President, and Advocate Tugaso Manyu, General Secretary. The convention has it ...

(1,196) 148,443 ** Assam Baptist Convention (921) 37,410 **

Garo Baptist Convention Garo Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination of India and Bangladesh. It is named after the ethnic group of the name Garo. Most members of this church are in Meghalaya. In Bangladesh the central office of the GBC is located in Bi ...

(2,619) 333,908 ** Karbi-Anglong Baptist Convention (338) 37,515 ** Manipur Baptist Convention (1,501) 2,21,409 *** Kuki Baptist Convention 28,431 Baptized members in 2018 ** Mising Baptist Kebang (115) 4,300 **

Nagaland Baptist Church Council The Nagaland Baptist Church Council is a Baptist Christian organization based in Nagaland, India. It is affiliated with the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India and the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is located in Kohima, t ...

(1,708) 722,872 ***

Angami Baptist Church Council The Angami Baptist Church Council (ABCC) is one of the 20 associations in the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC). Through the NBCC, the ABCC is part of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). Its headquarters, Kohima, is the second station of the ...

*** Ao Baptist Arogo Mungdang *

Evangelical Baptist Convention Evangelical Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination in Manipur, India. Their main area of presence is in the southern part of Manipur. It currently has a total of 151 churches and is one of the biggest churches among the tribal groups ...

(207) 40, 859 * Lairam Jesus Christ Baptist Church (119) 19,822 * Lower Assam Baptist Union (335) 38,088 * New Testament Baptist Churches Association (29) 10,000 *

North Bank Baptist Christian Association North Bank Baptist Christian Association is a Baptist Christian denomination in India. It is headquartered in Shakomato Christian Center, Biswanath Chariali, Sonitpur District of Assam. History It was established in the year 1950. As of 2015, It h ...

(1,228) 109,838 **

Boro Baptist Convention Boro Baptist Convention or BBC is a Baptist churches convention based in Assam, India, with more than 52,000 members and 354 congregations as of 2014. The Boro Baptist Convention was established in 1914 and completed its centenary celebrations i ...

(354) 52,000 * Rabha Baptist Convention (64) 12,356 * Tripura Baptist Christian Union (943) 84,795

Catholic

The Catholic Church in North East India falls under three different rites, all three are in full communion with each other as sister churches and with the

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and the

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of Rome. These include 1) Latin / Roman rite 2) Eastern Syriac -

Syro-Malabar Church lat, Ecclesia Syrorum-Malabarensium mal, മലബാറിലെ സുറിയാനി സഭ , native_name_lang=, image = St. Thomas' Cross (Chennai, St. Thomas Mount).jpg , caption = The Mar Thoma Nasrani Sl ...

3) Western Syriac - Syro-Malankara Church 1) Latin / Roman rite: The total number of Latin Catholics in North East India as of 2020 stands at 1,913,431 adherents where the region is divided into 3 Metropolitan Archdioceses and 12 suffragan dioceses with a total of 528 parishes and more than 3500 chapels/mission stations/local churches and congregations as per the statistics mentioned below. ''Note: The brackets denote the number of Catholic Church parishes'' * Metropolitan of Guwahati: ** Archdiocese of Guwahati (46) 57,884 ** Diocese of Bongaigaon (36) 72,886 ** Diocese of Dibrugarh (37) 134,855 ** Diocese of Diphu (26) 68,442 **

Diocese of Tezpur Diocese of Tezpur is a Roman Catholic diocese that has its seat in Tezpur, which is in Assam, India. It was founded in 1964. Bishops of Tezpur * Oreste Marengo, S.D.B. (6 Jul 1964 Appointed - 26 Jun 1969 Resigned) * Joseph Mittathany (26 Jun 1 ...

(33) 203,820 ** Diocese of Itanagar (42) 83,822 **

Diocese of Miao The Roman Catholic Diocese of Miao ( la, Dioecesis Miaoensis) is a diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of Guwahati. It is located in Miao in India. It was created on 7 December 2005, by splitting it from the Diocese of Dibrugarh. Its first b ...

(30) 98,600 * Metropolitan of Shillong **

Archdiocese of Shillong The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Shillong ( la, Shillongensis) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese in the state of Meghalaya, in northeastern India. The Archdiocese of Shillong is the metropolitan diocese of the Province of Shillong, an ecclesia ...

(35) 342,169 ** Diocese of Nongstoin (22) 164,334 ** Diocese of Jowai (18) 111,930 ** Diocese of Tura (45) 326,716 ** Diocese of Agartala (21) 48,747 ** Diocese of Aizawl (32) 41,067 * Metropolitan of Imphal: ** Archdiocese of Imphal (53) 101,283 ** Diocese of Kohima (52) 61,876 * Although geographically Sikkim is part of North East India. The state of Sikkim falls under the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Darjeeling The Diocese of Darjeeling is a Latin Roman Catholic suffragan diocese situated in the north east of India, in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Calcutta, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the Ev ...

with 60 parishes and 37,320 Catholics. This diocese fall under the province of the Archdiocese of Calcutta and ecclesiastically not included in the North Eastern region of India. * (2) Syro Malabar Church Mission to the North East: With the decision of the synod of bishops of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church and under the guidance of Mar Raphael Thattil, the Syro Malabar Bishop of Shamshabad, a delegation made a visit to the North -Eastern States of Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh from 7 May to 18 May 2019. On the basis of this visit and after much prayers, reflections and discussions together with the guidance of the Major Archbishop of Syro-Malabar Church Archbishop Mar George Alenchery, the Bishops took the decision to start the evangelical mission of the Syro Malabar Church in Northeast India. Thus the Eparchy of Irinjalakuda was invited to start a mission in the Northeast. The Bishop of Irinjalakuda accepted the Divine invitation and started the Silchar Syro-Malabar Catholic Mission - in short Silchar Mission - with St. Paul the Apostole of the Gentiles as the Heavenly Patron. On the day of the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, 15 August 2019, the first mission house and chapel dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus were blessed at Silchar and the solemn Holy Qurbana was offered. * (3) Syro Malankara Church mission to the North East: Pope Francis, on 26 March 2015 at 4:30 pm by the Decree N 7780/15 also erected the St. John Chrysostom Diocese for the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church which include the North Eastern region of India. The mission to North East India is presently under the care of Rev. Fr. Jigmy Thomas, Rev. Fr. Justin Raj R. and Rev. Fr. Sabi Varghese.

Congregational

* Kuki Christian Church (312) 38,600 *

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(520) 72,500 * Evangelical Free Church of India (293) 67,401 * Independent Church of India (182) 65,027 * Evangelical Church of Maraland (85) 33,000

Lutheran

* Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church (180) 87,541 * Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Himalayan States 24,750 ** Bodo Evangelical Lutheran Church (65) 11,510 * Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam * Manipur Evangelical Lutheran Church (49) 8,500

Methodist

* Methodist Church in India ** Methodist Mission Church in North East India (MMC NEI) *

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Wesleyan Church The Wesleyan Church, also known as the Wesleyan Methodist Church and Wesleyan Holiness Church depending on the region, is a Methodist Christian denomination in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Namibia, Sierra Leone, L ...

) ** Mizoram Wesleyan Methodist Church

Pentecostal

* Christian Revival Church ** Nagaland Christian Revival Church (1,195) 355,000 **Christian Revival Church Council Arunachal Pradesh (APCRCC) ** Christian Revival Church Assam ** Christian Revival Church Manipur ** Christian Revival Church Meghalaya ** Christian Revival Church Sikkim **Christian Revival Church Tripura **Christian Revival Church West Bengal *

Church of God, Meghalaya and Assam Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chri ...

(563) 100,000 * United Pentecostal Church, North East India (UPCNEI) 91,720 * United Pentecostal Church (Mizoram) 41,558 * Assembly Church of Jesus Christ Full Gospel (300) 40,000 * Isua Krista Kohhran * Nagaland Pentecostal Church (NPC) *

Assembly of God The Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 144 autonomous self-governing national groupings of churches that together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination."Assemblies of God". ...

Indian Pentecostal Church of God The Indian Pentecostal Church of God (IPC) is the largest Pentecostal Christian Denomination in India. It has over ten thousand congregations around the world. Its organisational headquarters is at Hebronpuram, Kumbanad, Kerala, India. IPC chu ...

* The Pentecostal Mission

Presbyterian

The Presbyterian Church of India consists of the following synods with 4,616 churches and 1,467,529 members as of 2018: * Biateram Presbyterian Synod 16,953 * Cachar Hill Tribes Presbyterian Synod 34,153 * Karbi Anglong Presbyterian Church Synod (62) 22,952https://www.mizoramsynod.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Presbyterian-Review-April_June-2014.pdf
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Khasi Jaintia Presbyterian Synod Mihngi Khasi may refer to: * Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India * Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India * Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India See also * Khasi Hills * G ...

(576) 294,320 * Khasi Jaintia Presbyterian Synod Sepngi (854) 370,764 * Manipur Presbyterian Church Synod (110) 15,571 * Meitei Presbyterian Singlup Synod (85) 8,785 * Mizoram Presbyterian Synod (1,266) 611,241 * Ri Bhoi Presbyterian Synod 70,013 *

Tripura Presbyterian Church Synod The Tripura Presbyterian Church Synod is one of the constituent units of the Presbyterian Church of India. It has its headquarters in Agartala, Tripura. It has 325 churches and 22,277 members mostly among the indigenous peoples of Tripura. Hist ...

(325) 22,277 * Zou Presbyterian Synod (68) 11,768

Seventh-day Adventist

* The Northeast Indian Union of

Seventh-day Adventist The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...

has 220 Churches and 53,226 members and comprises the following: *

Mizo Conference of Seventh-day Adventist The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mizoram is formally organised as the Mizo Conference of Seventh-day Adventist. It is one of the conferences of the Northeast India Union of Seventh-day Adventists under the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-d ...

(81) 22,446 *Khasi Jaintia Conference (28) 5,426 *Manipur Conference (46) 6,644 *Garo Section (43) 11,960 *Arunachal Pradesh Region (1) 367 *Assam Region (18) 5,594 *Nagaland Region (3) 789 *Tripura Region

Others

The Salvation Army The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7million, comprising soldiers, officers and adherents col ...

55,791 *

Unitarian Union of North East India Unitarian or Unitarianism may refer to: Christian and Christian-derived theologies A Unitarian is a follower of, or a member of an organisation that follows, any of several theologies referred to as Unitarianism: * Unitarianism (1565–present) ...

10,000 * Holy Christ Church North east India (1500) * Believers Eastern Church

References

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