Church of North India (CNI)

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Chotanagpur diocese

2018: women priests

Tapas Biswas, Chotanagpur diocese of CNI to have women priests, June 4, 2018: The Times of India

For the first time since its inception 128 years ago, the Chotanagpur diocese of the Church of North India (CNI) has decided to ordain women as priests, breaking the church’s age-old tradition of a men-only clergy.

“Though other dioceses of the CNI church have long ago anointed women as priests, giving them the right to conduct church services, the Chotanagpur diocese had refrained from following suit. However, we have decided to break the morethan-century-old tradition and ordain women as priests. The first woman priest is expected to be anointed this month,” head of CNI Chotanagpur diocese bishop B B Baskey told TOI. Bishop Baskey heads 52 parishes of CNI, dominant Protestant denomination in north India, spread over Jharkhand and Odisha. Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church, first church set up at Chotanagpur in Ranchi in 1845 was also the first in the region to ordain three women as priests in 1995.