About half of the total members are from the Garo, Santal, Marma and Chakma ethnic groups of Bangladesh.

This started as a movement which focused on language and took shape through the liberation war in 1971, which created an independent Bangladesh.

Following the creation of the Church of Bangladesh, efforts were made to increase local leadership.

He tried to follow the path of Bishop Blair, by encouraging the active participation of lay leaders from all sections of the church congregations.

Although the title is not employed in this United Protestant denomination, since the acknowledgement of the bishop of Dhaka as a primate within the Anglican Communion, he has been entitled to the usual archepiscopal prefix "the Most Reverend".

Since it was split to create Kushtia diocese, the Moderator of the Synod has usually also been Archbishop of Dhaka of Church of Bangladesh.

Former Moderator Paul Sarker attended an Anglican Church in North America meeting on 13–15 May 2017, at Holy Cross Cathedral, in Loganville, Georgia.