Dinesh Chandra Gorai is an Indian and Bengali-speaking leader of the Church of North India. He was the first non-Anglican Bishop of Calcutta (1982–1999) and also Moderator of the CNI (1983–1986). He was appointed as the first new bishop of the CNI with its inauguration in 1970,[1] to serve as Bishop of Barrackpore (1970–1982).[2] He was the first Bengali moderator of Church of North India (CNI).