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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = The Rt. Rev. K. C. Pillai<br />
| image = Bishop_KC_Pillai.jpg<br />
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| caption = K. C. Pillai (1900–1970)<br />
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| birth_place = Mudigolam, Chittoor District, [[Andhra Pradesh]], India<br />
| death_date = 20 February 1970<br />
| death_place = Birmingham, Alabama, US<br />
| education = Master of Arts, Doctor of Divinity<br />
| occupation = Bishop, Biblical Scholar<br />
| known_for = Eastern Manners, Customs and Orientalisms of the Bible<br />
| spouse = Swarnamma Pillai<br />
| children = 3<br />
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'''Karnam Chengalvaraya Pillai''', [[Doctor of Divinity|DD]] (1900–1970) was a [[Bishop]], Antiochean Succession, [[Chennai]] (Madras), [[India]].<ref>[http://www.cortright.org/key6.htm ''Keys to the Word's Interpretation: Orientalisms''. March 1998.]</ref> He spent the last twenty years of his life in the [[United States of America]] on a special mission to acquaint Christians with the [[orientalism]]s of the [[Bible]]. He wrote books and worked with western Christians to help clarify what he believed were difficult [[Bible|Scriptural]] passages through an understanding of the eastern manners and customs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eternallyblessed.com/pillai.html |author1=Pillai, Bishop K.C. |title=The Bible is an Eastern book|website=Eternally Bless Bookstore|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202223704/http://www.eternallyblessed.com/pillai.html |archivedate=2 February 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> During his time in the United States, he became associated with [[Victor Paul Wierwille]], the founding president of [[The Way International]] and according to the book ''Born Again to Serve'' by the [[American Christian Press]], Pillai and Wierwille worked through every orientalism in the Bible from [[book of genesis|Genesis]] through [[book of revelation|Revelation]] over a six-week period in 1953.<ref>''Born Again to Serve''. [[American Christian Press]]. 1996.</ref><br />
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His books include:<br />
* ''Light Through an Eastern Window''<br />
**Robert Speller & Sons; Publishers (1963) {{ISBN|0-8315-0057-3}}<br />
**The Way International: [[American Christian Press]] (1987). {{ISBN|0-910068-63-1}}<br />
* ''Orientalisms of the Bible'' - Volumes 1 & 2<br />
**Munkus Publishing Company, INC. (1969, 1974)<br />
**The Way International: [[American Christian Press]] (1984). {{ISBN|0-910068-70-4}}<br />
In 1980, Reverend Bo Reahard compiled several of Pillai's teachings in his work ''Old and New Testament Orientalisms - Teachings of Bishop K.C. Pillai'' and in 2010, Jeanie Strand Chilton published the work ''Eastern Customs of the Bible: The Teachings of Bishop K. C. Pillai''.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.kcpillai.org/ Bishop KC Pillai]<br />
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