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{{Infobox person
| name = K. C. Pillai
| image = Bishop_KC_Pillai.jpg
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| caption = K. C. Pillai (1900–1970)
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Mudigolam, Chittoor District, [[Andhra Pradesh]], India
| death_date = 20 February 1970
| death_place = [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], Alabama, US
| education = Master of Arts, Doctor of Divinity
| occupation = [[Bishop]], Biblical Scholar
| known_for = Eastern Manners, Customs and Orientalisms of the [[Bible]]
| spouse = Swarnamma Pillai
| children = 3
}}

'''Karnam Chengalvaraya Pillai''' (1900–1970) was a [[bishop]], Antiochean Succession, [[Chennai]] (Madras), India.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cortright.org/key6.htm |title=''Keys to the Word's Interpretation: Orientalisms''. March 1998. |access-date=15 August 2010 |archive-date=28 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028031441/http://cortright.org/key6.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He spent the last twenty years of his life in the United States 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}}</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>

His books include:
* ''Light Through an Eastern Window''
**Robert Speller & Sons; Publishers (1963) {{ISBN|0-8315-0057-3}}
**The Way International: [[American Christian Press]] (1987). {{ISBN|0-910068-63-1}}
* ''Orientalisms of the Bible'' – Volumes 1 & 2
**Munkus Publishing Company, INC. (1969, 1974)
**The Way International: [[American Christian Press]] (1984). {{ISBN|0-910068-70-4}}
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''.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://eternallyblessed.org/bishop-kc-pillai/ Bishop KC Pillai]

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