This study is a micro level study that is restricted to the role of the Church in the development of the post-colonial state of Goa. The pastoral effectiveness of the Church in Goa particularly after liberation, has definitely been on the positive side kudos to the ‘educated’ and self-confident clergy and laity of Goa. The priests, religious and laity have grown with experi­- ence at all levels and are well conscientised and equipped to continue the task of “building the kingdom of God on Earth with- out leaving all concerns to life beyond”. The socio-religious di­ mension of the Church in Goa can be further studied and evalu­ ated within the broader perspectives that are related to ‘con­ frontation’, ‘governance’, ‘institutionalization’ and ‘policing’ par­ ticularly after the State that was hitherto a ‘standard bearer of the Portuguese State’ has ceased to remain so in the post-lib­ eration period. It is argued that much of the Church history is written by the missionaries and from the missionary perspec­- tive and this is never delinked from the Eurocentic, Christocentric and Eusocentric perspective. In analyzing the role of the post colonial Church in Goa, we undertake a dispassion­ ate analysis so that we are able to understand the Church within a larger historical context.