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Church of North India

United and uniting churches · 1970 · Northern India

The 1970 six-tradition union of northern India's Protestant churches — Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian/Congregational, Disciples, Baptist and Brethren streams — a province of the Anglican Communion and member of the World Methodist Council and WCRC; the Church of Pakistan (1970, including Lutherans) and Church of Bangladesh (1974) are its sibling unions.

Church of North India was formed in 1970. Church of North India continues today. Church of North India's institutional line runs back through Church of England, Roman Catholicism to the post-apostolic church. No body on this tree is the assembly of Acts 2; where a body claims that, the claim appears in the claimed-lineage layer.

Between the post-apostolic church and Church of North India stand 2 divisions along the institutional line, counting separations and disputed forks, not mergers, renewals or national organizations.

At a glance

Formed
In 1970
Family
United and uniting churches
Region
Northern India
Also known as
CNI

What it was organized out of

  • Formed by union with Church of England, one of several constituents.
  • Formed by union with Methodism, one of several constituents.
  • Formed by union with Reformed, one of several constituents. The United Church of Northern India (Presbyterian/Congregational).
  • Formed by union with The Disciples (Campbell movement), one of several constituents. The Disciples of Christ stream — restorationist cross-link.

On the tree

Church of North India and its institutional line back to the post-apostolic churchAD 33The church at Pentecost: On divine groundThe church at Pentecost: on divine groundtoday100424431451105415191534172918091970The post-apostolic church (The spine)The post-apostolicchurchDepartureChurch of the East (Church of the East)Church of the EastChurch of the EastThe conciliar church (The spine)The conciliar churchDepartureThe Chalcedonian church (The spine)The Chalcedonian churchDepartureOriental Orthodoxy (Oriental Orthodox)Oriental OrthodoxyOriental OrthodoxEastern Orthodoxy (Eastern Orthodox)Eastern OrthodoxyEastern OrthodoxRoman Catholicism (Catholic)Roman CatholicismNot gatheredReformed (Reformed and Presbyterian)ReformedReformed and PresbyterianChurch of England (Anglican)Church of EnglandAnglicanMethodism (Methodist)MethodismMethodistThe Disciples (Campbell movement) (Stone-Campbell)The Disciples (Campbellmovement)Stone-CampbellChurch of North India (United and uniting churches)Church of North IndiaUnited and uniting churches

Solid lines are separations and unions; dashed lines are renewals that began inside a body; dotted gray lines are national organizations of one communion; a diamond marks a fork event where neither side is drawn as the one that left. Every line runs back to the post-apostolic church; no body descends from the assembly of Acts 2. Dashed gray boxes mark the institutional line after the apostles, shown as departure; no line of descent is drawn from Pentecost. A verdict appears on a box once its section is published.

Adherents

About 2,300,000 adherents (self-reported claim, as of 2025).

A figure the body itself has stated, often years old, with no census apparatus behind it.

Source: Wikipedia (2025)

Sources

Research compiled July 2026. Page data built 2026-10-31.