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	'''Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha''' (born 1956)<ref name="EGM"/> is the [[Bishop]] of the [[Nandyal Diocese]] of the [[Church of South India]]. She is the first woman to become a [[Bishop]] in [[Church of South India]].<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news\|title=CSI appoints woman as a bishop \|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/csi-appoints-woman-as-bishop/article5176691.ece\|newspaper=The Hindu\|date =28 September 2013}}</ref>		'''Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha''' (born 1956)<ref name="EGM"/> is the [[Bishop]] of the [[Nandyal Diocese]] of the [[Church of South India]]. She is the first woman to become a [[Bishop]] in [[Church of South India]].<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news\|title=CSI appoints woman as a bishop \|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/csi-appoints-woman-as-bishop/article5176691.ece\|newspaper=The Hindu\|date =28 September 2013}}</ref>

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| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Reverend]] [[Nun|Sister]]<ref name="EGM">Elizabeth Gillan Muir, ''Women's History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership'', Toronto University Press, Toronto, 2019, p.355.[https://books.google.com/books?id=i2WUDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA355&dq=eggoni%20pushpa%20lalitha&pg=PA355#v=onepage&q=eggoni%20pushpa%20lalitha&f=false]</ref>
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| church = [[Church of South India]] (''A [[United and uniting churches|Uniting church]] comprising [[Wesleyan Church|Wesleyan Methodist]], [[Congregational]], [[Calvinist]] and [[Anglican]] missionary societies – [[United Society|SPG]], [[English Wesleyan Mission|WMMS]], [[London Missionary Society|LMS]], [[Basel Mission]], [[Church Missionary Society|CMS]], and the [[Church of England]])''
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| ordination=As [[Deaconess]] on 17 July 1983,<ref name="Synod"/> As [[Presbyter]] on 8 April 1984<ref name="Synod"/><ref name="EPP">E. Pushpa Lalitha, ''Women’s Leadership in the Church of South India'' in ''Feminist Theology'', Volume 26(1), 2017, pp.80–89.[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0966735017714403]</ref>
| ordained_by = [[Bishop]] L. V. Azaraiah,<ref name="EPP"/> [[Church of South India|CSI]]
| consecration = 29 September 2013<ref name="Synod"/>
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*[[Selly Oak Colleges]], [[Birmingham]] ([[United Kingdom]]),
*[[United Theological College of the West Indies]], [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]] ([[Jamaica]]),
*[[Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary]], [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] ([[United States]])
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'''Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha''' (born 1956)<ref name="EGM"/> is the [[Bishop]] of the [[Nandyal Diocese]] of the [[Church of South India]]. She is the first woman to become a [[Bishop]] in [[Church of South India]].<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite news|title=CSI appoints woman as a bishop |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/csi-appoints-woman-as-bishop/article5176691.ece|newspaper=The Hindu|date =28 September 2013}}</ref>

The [[Church of South India]], part of the [[Anglican Communion]],<ref>Colin Buchanan, ''Historical Dictionary of Anglicanism'', Rowman and Littlefield, London, 2015, p.548.[https://books.google.com/books?id=mFCbCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA548&dq=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&pg=PR15#v=onepage&q=nandyal&f=false]</ref> created history when then Moderator, [[G. Devakadasham]] and Deputy Moderator [[G. Dyvasirvadam]] consecrated Pushpa Lalitha in 2013<ref>Grace Davie, ''Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox'', Blackwell Publishers, Sussex, 2015, p.127.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tqObBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA127&dq=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&f=false]</ref> making a woman [[Reverend]] become a [[Bishop]]. Pushpa Lalitha is a member of the [[CSI Order of Sisters]] headquartered in [[Bangalore]] and although she is the first woman to be consecrated as [[Bishop]] of [[Church of South India]], the first woman to be consecrated [[Bishop]] in any church in [[Asia]] was A. Katakshamma<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/India-gets-first-woman-Anglican-bishop-from-Andhra/articleshow/23176743.cms Nikhila Henry, ''India gets first woman Anglican bishop from Andhra.'']</ref> of the [[Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Church]], [[Bhadrachalam]]. The first ordained woman priest in India is [[Nun|Sr.]] [[Elizabeth Paul]], also of the [[CSI Order of Sisters]].

==Early years==
Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha was born to a family of agriculturists in Diguvapadu<ref name="EPP"/> village in [[Kurnool district]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]]. She acknowledges the influence of the [[Protestant]] and [[Catholic]] Missionaries<ref name="EPP"/> who lead a selfless life and she very much wanted to lead such a life and became a member of the [[CSI Order of Sisters]].<ref name="Oxford">[http://www.oxford.anglican.org/god-life-bishop-nandyal/ Diocese of Oxford, God in the Life of Bishop of Nandyal]</ref>

===Ministerial Formation===
Pushpa Lalitha had her ministerial formation<ref name="The Hindu"/> at the [[Andhra Christian Theological College]],<ref name="EPP"/> [[Secunderabad]] affiliated to the nation's first<ref name="UNESCO">[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001790/179035eb.pdf UNESCO Structures of University Education in India, 1952]</ref> University, the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] where she studied from 1979-1982 during the period of the [[Old Testament]] Scholars, [[Victor Premasagar]],<ref name="Wilson">[[H. S. Wilson]] (Edited), ''The Church on the Move: Essays in honour of [[Victor Premasagar]]'', Christian Literature Society, [[Madras]], 1988, p.vi. [https://books.google.com/books?ei=iR-HVZnHN43GuAT82IDwBQ&id=S-wrAAAAMAAJ&dq=victor+premasagar+g.babu+rao&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=babu+rao]</ref> [[Church of South India|CSI]] and G. Babu Rao,<ref name="Wilson"/> [[CBCNC]].

She later had an exposure in 1984–1985<ref name="EPP"/> at the [[Selly Oak Colleges]], [[Birmingham]] and at the [[United Church of Jamaica and Cayman Islands]],<ref name="Oxford"/> [[Kingston, Jamaica]].<ref>''Theologue'', [[United Theological College of the West Indies]], 1984, p.29.[https://books.google.com/books?id=l9BYAAAAMAAJ&q=eggoni+pushpalalitha&dq=eggoni+pushpalalitha&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk69GanMzTAhUDgI8KHfvyBwQQ6AEINTAD]</ref> Pushpa Lalitha also studied advanced courses at Berkeley, California during 1993–1995<ref name="EPP"/> at the [[Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary]].

==Ordination and pastorship==
Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha was ordained,<ref name="Synod"/> as Deaconess in 1983<ref name="Synod"/> and as a priest on 1984.<ref name="Synod"/><ref name="EPP"/> She held the post of Director<ref name="EPP"/> of ''Vishranthi Nilayam'', the headquarters of the [[CSI Order of Sisters]] on Infantry road in [[Bangalore]] and the administrative head of the [[Church of South India]] women fellowship. She has also served as Chairperson of the Deanery committee.

==Bishopric==
Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha was appointed as the [[Bishop]] of [[Nandyal Diocese]] on 25 September 2013. She was consecrated as [[Bishop]] on 29 September 2013 at the [[Church of South India|CSI]]-Holy Cross Cathedral in [[Nandyal]] by Moderator [[G. Devakadasham]] and Deputy Moderator [[G. Dyvasirvadam]].<ref>{{cite news|title=India gets first woman Anglican bishop from Andhra |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-28/hyderabad/42480633_1_first-woman-bishop-anglican-csi-synod|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930173323/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-28/hyderabad/42480633_1_first-woman-bishop-anglican-csi-synod|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 September 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |date =28 September 2013}}</ref>

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{{Succession box| before=[[P. J. Lawrence]] 2006–2012| title=Bishop – in – Nandyal, [[Nandyal]] | after=''[[Incumbent]]''| years=29 September 2013<ref name="Synod"/>-}}
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{{Succession box| before=Geevarghese Mar Yulios, [[Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church|MOSC]] 2015–2019| title=Vice-Chairperson, Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad|after=''[[Incumbent]]''| years=2019-''present''}}
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book
| author=Elizabeth Gillan Muir
| title=Women's History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership
| year=2019
| isbn=9781487593858
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i2WUDwAAQBAJ&q=eggoni+pushpa+lalitha&pg=PA355
}}
* {{cite journal
| author=E. Pushpa Lalitha
| title=Women's Leadership in the Church of South India in ''Feminist Theology''
| journal=Feminist Theology : The Journal of the Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology
| year=2017
| volume=26
| issue=1
| issn=1745-5189
| doi=10.1177/0966735017714403
| s2cid=148829032
}}
* {{cite book
| author=Grace Davie
| title=Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox
| year=2015
| issue=Second
| isbn=978-1-4051-3595-5
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqObBgAAQBAJ&q=eggoni+pushpalalitha&pg=PA4
}}
* {{cite book
| author=Colin Buchanan
| title=Historical Dictionary of Anglicanis
| year=2015
| issue=Second
| isbn=978-1-4422-5016-1
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFCbCgAAQBAJ&q=eggoni+pushpalalitha&pg=PP1
}}
* {{cite book
| author=Constance M. Millington
| title=An Ecumenical Venture: The History of Nandyal Diocese in Andhra Pradesh, 1947–1990
| year=1993
| isbn=9788170861539
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ue_jAAAAMAAJ&q=eggoni+pushpalalitha
}}

==References==
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