Dhanjuri Catholic Church
A VILLAGE CHURCH WAS BUILT ON THE LAND DONATED BY TRIBAL PEOPLE
DINAJPUR, Bangladesh : December 23, 2002 : People of JOLAGHUTU, Aftabgonj,
Nawabgong Dinajpur donated a piece of land for building a church there.
The area of the land is about 33 decimals. On the donated land a church
was built with the partly contribution form local priest of Dinajpur
Diocese. Bishop Moses Costa CSC, bishop of Dinajpur inaugurated this
church on 23rd December 2002.
After the welcoming ceremony the newly built church was blessed. It
was named the church of St. John the apostolic. Mr. John (70), a pioneer
Christian in the area donated the land and bishop mentioned in his sermon
that this church was named at St. John to show honour to Mr. John.
During the mass, 32 people from 10 families were baptized. In the
JOLAGHUTU and KHALIPPUR area there are about 400 families and of them 10
families were baptized. The rest are taking preparation to be Christian.
Fr. Cherubim Bakla (the parish priest), Fr. Ovidio Lakra (asstt.
Parish priest) were present along with Bishop. There were about 200 people
joined to the holy mass. END
Note :
1) BIRBAHA is village of Dhanjuri Catholic Church of Dinajpur
Diocese. It is about 45KM from Dinajpur Bishop’s House and about 15 KM
from the Parish Centre.
DINAJPUR DIOCESE 
