Type: | Archbishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
B. D. Mondal | |
Bishop of Dhaka Moderator of the Church of Bangladesh | |
Diocese: | Dhaka |
Term Start: | 1975 |
Term End: | 2002 |
Successor: | Michael Baroi |
Ordination: | 1964 |
Consecration: | 16 February 1975 |
Birth Name: | Barnabas Dejen Mondal |
Birth Date: | 1936 or 1937 |
Death Place: | Dhaka |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Religion: | United Protestant |
Barnabas Dejen Mondal (died 29 June 2019) was a Bangladeshi churchman who was the first moderator of the synod of the Church of Bangladesh, and the first bishop of the Church of Bangladesh Diocese of Dhaka.[1] The Church of Bangladesh is a United Protestant denomination formed as a result of a merger between Anglican and Presbyterian denominations in the region.[2]
In 1965, he became the priest of Oxford Mission Church. He was consecrated as bishop in early 1975.[1]
Bishop Mondal died in a hospital in the capital Dhaka on 29 June 2019, at the age of 82.[3]