About Us
St. Paul's Church welcomes all individuals seeking God’s love, and keep our doors open to every soul seeking to welcome Jesus into their hearts. We invite you to open your heart and allow His grace to penetrate into your soul.
Our church stands as a beacon of hope in Pune. We are a place of acceptance, peace and joy to all who are moved to join us. Our church family is richly diverse, with people of different ages and backgrounds coming together to worship and serve together. Get in touch to find out more or join us for a service.​
Church History
St. Paul's Church First stone was laid by Sir Henry Bartle Frere Bart, the Governor of Bombay on 29th August 1863 and was consecrated on 5th March 1867 by the second Anglican Bishop of Bombay, John Harding to serve as second Anglican Church after St. Mary's Church.
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From 1970 this church became part of the Church of North India and is currently in the Diocese of Pune.
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St. Paul's Church celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary or the 150 years of being consecrated in 2017.
What We Believe
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God and inerrant in the original writings. We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
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We believe that the lost and sinful man must be saved, and that man's only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We believe in and practice the holy ordinance of water baptism, which signifies the believer's death, burial, and resurrection into new life with Christ Jesus, and the regular celebration of Holy Communion as commanded by our Lord.
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We believe in the present ministry and baptism of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
