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[[Image:RC Church Dhurrumtollah St Calcutta.jpg|thumb|300px|Roman Catholic Church, Dhurrumtollah Street, Calcutta]]
'''Roman Catholic'''
*RC Cathedral (Virgin Mary of the Rosary) - built 1797. Also known as the Portuguese Church, it was located in the area called Murgihatta (Murghihatta, now Murgighata). <ref>"Shortly after the English came, the Portuguese who were the only people who kept fowls, were allotted a quarter which came to be designated as Murgihatta". Comment by A K Roy [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0RrOpM9L5xMC&pg=PA31 page 31] ''Calcutta Mosaic: Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta'' Google Books</ref>
*St Patrick's Chapel, [[Fort William]] - built 1857
*St Theresa - built 1893
*St Thomas' Church - (Middleton Row). Begun in 1841, adjacent to the Convent of Our Lady of Loreto
*Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Boitakhana (Baithakhana), founded in 1810, as a Portuguese mission church. The address of the Church was 147 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street (Old Bowbazar Street). This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2004-12/1101937632 post] advises it is situated quite close to the Sealdah Station, and near the Railway Barracks where most of the Anglo Indian who were employed by the Railway lived. A book was published in 1915 in Calcutta ''The Registers & Inscriptions of the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Baithakhana (1810-1914)'' by [http://www.goethals.in/collections/felixrajarticles/Hhosten.htm Fr H Hosten]. A copy of this book is available in Calcutta at the [http://www.goethals.in/search.asp?cat=38 Goethals Indian Library] category Various Indian Missions subcategory Portuguese Jurisdiction. At least some of the records appear in the [[Calcutta#FIBIS resources|FIBIS database, refer above]], but it is suspected that only some of the records were copied by Percy-Smith and Bullock. From copies of baptismal records obtained from the Church in the 1960s, and held by the FIBIS research co-ordinator, it would appear that some of the registers in the 1800s were noted in Portuguese.
**[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060415/asp/calcutta/story_6095119.asp Non-Christians in church flock]telegraphindia.com Article re Our Lady of Dolours.
*[http://www.goethals.in/GoethalNews/2008Apr-JunGNews.htm Catholic <nowiki>[</nowiki>and other<nowiki>]</nowiki> Heritage Churches of Calcutta] goethals.in
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