Bishop of Lahore (Church of Pakistan) explained

The Bishop of Lahore was the Ordinary of the Church of England in Lahore from its inception in 1877 until the foundation of the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon in 1927;^[1] and since then head of one of its most prominent Dioceses. Since 1970, the diocese of Lahore has been a part of the Church of Pakistan, a United Protestant denomination.

List of Bishops

Bishops of Lahore
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1877	1888	Valpy French
1888	1898	Henry Matthew	Died in the act of celebrating communion at Lahore Cathedral
1899	1912	George Lefroy
1913	1932	Henry Durant
1932	1949	George Barne
1949	1968	Laurence Woolmer
1968	1980	Inayat Masih	First Bishop of Lahore in the Church of Pakistan^[2]
1980	2012	Alexander Malik
2012	2022	Irfan Jamil	consecrated coadjutor bishop in 2011^[3]
2023	incumbent	Nadeem Kamran	Consecrated as a bishop in 2023

External links

• Lahore Cathedral
• Anglican Communion
• Details of the Diocese

Notes and References

1. Book: The Indian Year Book. 1940. Bennett, Coleman & Company. English . 455. The three dioceses thus formed have been repeatedly subdivided, until in 1930 there were fourteen dioceses, the dates of their creation being as follows : Calcutta 1814; Madras 1835; Bombay 1837; Colombo 1845; Lahore 1877; Rangoon 1877; Travancore 1879; Chota Nagpur 1890; Lucknow 1893; Tinnevelly 1896; Nagpur 1903; Dornakal 1912; Assam 1915; Nasik 1929..
2. Book: Who's Who: Inayat Masih. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U157244 . 978-0-19-954089-1 . 4 January 2021.
3. Marshall, Azad. "The Church of Pakistan (United)" (Ch. 29) in Ian S. Markham, J. Barney Hawkins, IV, Justyn Terry & Leslie Nuñez Steffensen (eds) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion (p. 335)