Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee
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Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee, officially The Most Reverend Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee (1882 – 1970), was an Indian and Bengali speaking leader of the erstwhile Anglican denomination, known as the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon (1948-1970), which merged with other Protestant denominations to form the Church of North India. He was the fourteenth Bishop of Calcutta and the tenth Metropolitan of India. He was also the first Indian to be either the Bishop of Calcutta or the Metropolitan of India.[1]
He was born in Calcutta in 1882 and was educated in the St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College and the Scottish Church College, both within the University of Calcutta.[2] He graduated in 1914 and obtained a degree in theology in 1917. He was ordained in 1923.[1]