Premaka Gurushantha

Premaka Gurushantha
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
Church Christian
Diocese Church of South India Diocese of Mysore)
See Church of South India
In office 1947-1950[1]
Successor Norman C. Sargant
Orders
Consecration 4 October 1947[1]
Personal details
Born 2 September 1887[2]
Tumkur, Karnataka
Previous post 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 - Church of South India Diocese of Mysore).

Gurushantha studied spirituality at the United Theological College, Bangalore during the years 1912-1916[5]

It was in 1947 that Gurushantha hailing from a Methodist background was consecrated as Bishop along with eight others at the 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.
Religious titles
Preceded by
Post created
Bishop - in - Karnataka Central Diocese
formerly (Diocese of Mysore)
Church of South India

1947-1950
Succeeded by
Norman C. Sargant
1951-1970
Academic offices
Preceded by
Principal,
Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur

-1947
Succeeded by
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