Over 2000 delegates from Assam, Mizoram and Manipur are converging here to attend the two-day centenary celebration of the Diocese of North East India of the Church of North India, at the century-old All Saints Cathedral beginning tomorrow.
The head of the Church of North India Dr Philip Marandih will unveil the centenary monolith and Dr Purely Lyngdoh the Diocesan Bishop will plant a centenary tree to mark the commencement of the jubilee celebration, Francis Ingty, secretary of All Saints Cathedral, said today.
The Diocese of North East India of the Church of North India was formerly an Anglican Diocese created by the then Church of England in January 1915, he said.
The Diocese has 275 churches in the region, mostly in Assam and few churches in Manipur and Mizoram.
The church in Shillong which was established in 1877 and rebuilt in 1902 after the 1897 earthquake, is the oldest church in Meghalaya and the second oldest in the Northeast after the Christ Church in Guwahati.
