Premaka Gurushantha
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
ChurchChristian
DioceseChurch of South India Diocese of Mysore
SeeChurch of South India
In office1947–1950[1]
SuccessorNorman C. Sargant
Orders
Consecration4 October 1947[1]
Personal details
Born2 September 1887[2]
Previous post(s)Principal,[3] Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur (now merged into Karnataka Theological College)

Premaka Gurushantha (born 2 September 1887, died 1950) was the first[1][4] bishop in the Church of South India Diocese of Mysore.

Gurushantha studied divinity at the United Theological College, Bangalore between 1912 and 1916[5]

Gurushantha hailed from a Methodist background; in 1947 he was consecrated as bishop along with eight others at St. George's Cathedral, Chennai.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 K. M. George, Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997, Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp. 36–41.
  2. ↑ Rajaiah David Paul, The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1958, p.265.
  3. ↑ Mar Aprem, Indian Christian Who is Who, Bombay Parish Church of the East, Bombay, 1983, p. 97.
  4. ↑ Bernard Thorogood, Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context: the Story of the London Missionary Society, 1945–1977, WCC, p. 97.
  5. ↑ K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), Directory of the United Theological College 1910–1997, Bangalore, 1997. p. 13
  6. ↑ Norman Sargant, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920–1950, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1987, pp. 5 and 73.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.