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Christianity in Manipur can traced back to an Anglican named William Pettigrew, [6] who lived in India when Surchandra Singh was the maharaja of Manipur. Pettigrew, who was born in Edinburgh and educated in London , applied to work with the Arthington Aborigines Mission in India and travelled to Bengal in 1890.
The various denominations of Christianity fall into several large families, shaped both by culture and history. Christianity arose in the first century AD after Rome had conquered much of the western parts of the fragmented Hellenistic empire created by Alexander the Great. The linguistic and cultural divisions of the first century AD Roman ...
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Manipur Baptist Convention (MBC) is a Baptist Christian denomination in Manipur, India. It is affiliated with the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India and the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation (Baptist World Alliance). [1] [2] The General Secretary of the Manipur Baptist Convention is REV. K. LOSII MAO. [3]
Christian Revival Church. Nagaland Christian Revival Church (1,195) 355,000 [38] Arunachal Pradesh Christian Revival Church Council (APCRCC) [39] Christian Revival Church Assam; Christian Revival Church Manipur; Christian Revival Church Meghalaya; Christian Revival Church Sikkim; Christian Revival Church Tripura; Christian Revival Church West ...
William Pettigrew (5 January 1869 – 19 January 1943) was a British Christian missionary who went to India in 1890, eventually brought western education in Manipur and introducing Jesus Christ to the Tangkhul Naga tribe, inhabiting Ukhrul district and he became the main catalyst for the surge in current christian population in Manipur.
Christianity is the predominant religion in the northeastern states of Nagaland, Mizoram Meghalaya, and Manipur. There are substantial Christian populations, in the regions of Arunachal, Assam, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [236]
The remainder (1,298,821 people, 85.3 percent) follow Hinduism and Christianity as per the census. The number of Christians is expected to be small. For example, the valley districts of Manipur, the major concentration of Meitei people, have about 3,000 Christians. [b] Most Meiteis follow both Hinduism as well as Sanamahi religious traditions ...