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'''Jashwant Rao Chitambar''' (5 September 1879 – 4 September 1940) was the first Indian bishop of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] of North and South India, elected in 1930.<ref>Charles Yrigoyen Jr. and Susan E. Warrick, eds. ''Historical Dictionary of Methodism'' (2013) p. 198</ref><ref>"Rev. J. R. Chitambar, Methodist Bishop; First Indian Christian to Be Elevated to Episcopacy Dies at 65 in Native Land; Wrote Book on Gandhi; Converted Son of Brahmin Had Visited U.S. This Year for Church Conference"
''New York Times'' September 6, 1940, Page 21.</ref>

==Early life==
Chitambar was born in [[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], [[India]]. He was the son of native [[preacher]] Rajaram Chitambar, who was a [[Conversion to Christianity|converted]] [[Maharashtra|Mahratta]] [[Brahmin]], one of the first converts to Christianity as a result of [[missionary]] work in [[western India]]. Both of Chitambar's parents were of the high [[Indian caste system|caste]] Indians, who converted to Christianity.

==Ordained ministry==
Chitambar was accepted into the membership of the North India [[Annual Conference]] in 1907. He became a [[Hindustan]]i [[pastor]], district superintendent, and educator. He was the first Indian delegate to General Conference. One of the founders of the National Missionary Society of India, Chitambar was a delegate to the World's Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1910.

==Episcopal ministry==
He was elected to the [[episcopacy]] of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church|M.E. Church]] by the Central Conference of Southern Asia in 1930. His election made him the first native [[Protestant]] bishop. He became ill on his return from the General Conference of 1940, and he died 4 September 1940 in [[Jubbulpore]], India. He was buried in Jubbulpore.

==Selected works==
*''[[John Wesley]], the Man Who Did Exploits,'' in ''God's Heroes Our Examples,'' 1914.
*''[[Mahatma Gandhi]]: His Life, Work and Influence,'' 1933.
*Translation of Christian Hymns.
*Member of committee that revised ''"The Standard Hindustani Dictionary."''
He was first Indian Native Bishop in MEC

==Further reading==
* Badley, Brenton T. ''The Making of a Bishop: The Life of Bishop Jashwant Chitambar'' (Lucknow, India: Lucknow Publishing House, 1942).
* Leete, Frederick DeLand, ''Methodist Bishops.'' Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
* Locke, Russ M. "A Methodist Family In India: A History Of I. Amar Chitambar and Family." (Doctor of Ministry thesis, Claremont School Of Theology, Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 1978. 781534 [https://archive.org/stream/AMETHODISTFAMILYININDIAA/A_METHODIST_FAMILY_IN_INDIA_A_djvu.txt online], pp. 40-54 on Jashwant Rao Chitambar.
* Pickett, J. Waskom. ''The Methodist Church in India.'' (1939).

==See also==
*[[List of bishops of the United Methodist Church]]

==References==
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