Diocese of Nandyal

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{{Infobox diocese
|jurisdiction = Diocese
|name = Nandya
|image = Holy Cross Cathedral.jpg
|image_alt = a brick fortified Gothic Revival church
|caption = The Holy Cross cathedral, Nandyal.
|province = [[Church of South India]]
|cathedral = CSI Holy Cross Cathedral ,Nandyal
|bishop = [[Pushpa Lalitha]]
|suffragans =
|archdeaconries =
|website =
}}
'''Nandyal Diocese''' is a diocese of [[Church of South India]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]] state of [[India]]. The diocese is one among the 22 dioceses of [[Church of South India]] in India.
==History==
The first [[missionary|missionaries]] who came to [[Nandyal]] were [[Arthur Inman]] and [[Alfred Briton]] in the year 1881. These two missionaries were responsible to establish the [[Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts|SPG]] High School in 1884 and to build the Holy Cross Church in 1905 in Nandyal. These two missionaries who resided in Nandyal lived in tents and went about preaching the gospel in and around Nandyal in various villages and building churches. Their mode of travel in those days were bullock carts on most primitive roads or cart tracks. They learned the local language [[Telugu language|Telugu]] and traveled extensively beyond Nandyal to place like [[Kurnool]], [[Giddalur]], [[Kalasapad]], [[Atmakur, Kurnool district|Atmakur]] and [[Nandikotkur]] and planted churches in the villages. In this church first SPG Telugu Graduate Priest Rev. [[David Gnanamuthu]] served from 1912 to 1923, he came from Kadapa and he went to [[Madras Christian College|Medras Christian Theological College]], Madras (1885 to 1890) and his second son Rev. John Yesudas Gnanamuthu served as Arch Deacon in this diocese.<ref>[http://prokgb.org/daedalus_2007/dboard/viewbody.php?board_name=gb_free&category=&keyfield=&key=&number=1384&order=dboard_postdate&page=19&shape=dboard_default_archives_england 'History of Nandyal Diocese']</ref>

When Dornakal diocese (of which it was then a part) joined the united Church of South India in 1947, Nandyal instead chose to remain in the Indian Anglican church, under the Diocese of Calcutta. Nandyal [[diocese]] was formed on 29 April 1963, initially as part of [[Church of India (CIPBC)]]; with that church, it united into the [[Church of North India]] in 1970, and the Nandyal diocese eventually joined the [[Church of South India]] on 6 July 1975.<ref>[Constance M. Millington (1993): An Ecumenical Venture: The History of Nandyal Diocese in Andhra Pradesh, 1947–1990, 57. https://books.google.com/books/about/An_Ecumenical_Venture.html?id=ue_jAAAAMAAJ]</ref>

Now the Holy Cross Church is called as Holy Cross Cathedral in [[Nandyal|Church of South Iindia-Dioces of Nandyal.]]
==Bishops==
In 1950, [[Arthur Partridge]] was consecrated Bishop in Nandyal, an [[assistant bishop]] in the [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Diocese of Calcutta]]; he served until Nandyal diocese was erected and returned to the UK.<ref>{{Who's Who | id= U174697 | surname= Partridge | othernames = (William) Arthur }}</ref>
* 1963–1967, [[Clement Venkataramiah]]
* 1967–1974, [[Ernest John]]
* 1977–1985, [[Pabbathi John]]
* 1985–1992, [[Ryder Devapriam]]
* 1994–2005, [[G. T. Abraham]]
* 2006–2012, [[P. J. Lawrence]]
* 2013 onwards, [[Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha|E. Pushpa Lalitha]]
==Notable ecclesiastical personalities==
* [[Bunyan Joseph]], Bishop of erstwhile [[Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese]] (integrated into [[Rayalaseema Diocese]]),
* [[B. E. Devaraj]], translator of the Bible into [[Lambadi]] language,
* [[Emani Sambayya]], non-episcopal commissary to Nandyal,<ref>Constance M. Millington, ''An Ecumenical Venture: The History of Nandyal Diocese in Andhra Pradesh, 1947–1990'', Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation, 1993, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ue_jAAAAMAAJ&q=emani+sambayya+nandyal&dq=emani+sambayya+nandyal&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMIorfK0NHnyAIVhJ2UCh2blAbu p. 96.]</ref>
==Educational institutions in the diocese==
The SPG High School, Nandyal, was established in the year 1882.
==Further reading==
* {{cite book
|author = Kevin Ward
|title = A History of Global Anglicanism
|year = 2006
|volume =
|isbn = 9780521008662
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hQwU04vx98MC&q=nandyal+diocese&pg=PR4
}}
* {{cite book
|author = K. M. George
|title = Church of South India: Life in Union, 1947-1997
|year = 1999
|volume =
|isbn = 8172145128
|oclc = 1039224320
}}
* {{cite book
|author = Constance M. Millington
|title = Led by the Spirit: a biography of Bishop Arthur Michael Hollis, onetime Anglican Bishop of Madras, and later first moderator of the C.S.I.
|year = 1996
|volume =
|isbn = 81-7086-189-6
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2hjkAAAAMAAJ&q=bishop+bunyan+joseph
}}
* {{cite book
|author = Constance M. Millington
|title = An Ecumenical Venture: The History of Nandyal Diocese in Andhra Pradesh, 1947-1990
|year = 1993
|volume =
|isbn = 81-7086-153-5
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ue_jAAAAMAAJ&q=bishop+bunyan+joseph
}}
* {{cite journal
|author = Rajaiah David Paul
|title = Ecumenism in action: a historical survey of the Church of South India
|year = 1972
|volume =
|issue =
|isbn =
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5cpWAAAAMAAJ&q=bishop+bunyan+joseph
}}
* {{cite journal
|author = Rajaiah David Paul
|title = The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India
|year = 1958
|volume =
|issue =
|isbn =
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mNEsAAAAIAAJ&q=bishop+bunyan+joseph
}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140522212948/http://nandyalallsaintschurch.org/aboutus.html All Saints Church Nandyal]
{{Dioceses in the Church of South India}}
{{Churches in India}}
[[Category:Church of South India dioceses|Nandyal]]
[[Category:Christianity in Andhra Pradesh]]
[[Category:Kurnool district]]
[[Category:Anglican bishops of Nandyal|*]]
[[Category:Christian organizations established in 1963]]
[[Category:1963 establishments in Andhra Pradesh]]

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