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'''Premaka Gurushantha''' (born 2 September 1887, died 1950) was the first<ref name="George">K. M. George, ''Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997'', Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp. 36–41.  [https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=]</ref><ref>Bernard Thorogood, ''Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context: the Story of the London Missionary Society, 1945–1977'', WCC, p. 97. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iU8xAAAAMAAJ&q=Premaka+Gurushantha&dq=Premaka+Gurushantha&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBWoVChMI_5v9v--yxwIVDEmOCh2vUQzE]</ref> bishop in the [[Church of South India Diocese of Mysore]].
'''Premaka Gurushantha''' (born 2 September 1887, died 1950) was the first<ref name="George">K. M. George, ''Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997'', Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp. 36–41.  [https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=]</ref><ref>Bernard Thorogood, ''Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context: the Story of the London Missionary Society, 1945–1977'', WCC, p. 97. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iU8xAAAAMAAJ&q=Premaka+Gurushantha&dq=Premaka+Gurushantha&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBWoVChMI_5v9v--yxwIVDEmOCh2vUQzE]</ref> bishop in the [[Church of South India Diocese of Mysore]].



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Premaka Gurushantha
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
ChurchChristian
DioceseChurch of South India Diocese of Mysore
SeeChurch of South India
In office1947–1950[1]
SuccessorNorman C. Sargant
Orders
Consecration4 October 1947[1]
Personal details
Born2 September 1887[2]
Tumkur, Karnataka
Previous post(s)Principal,[3] Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur (now merged into Karnataka Theological College)

Premaka Gurushantha (born 2 September 1887, died 1950) was the first[1][4] bishop in the Church of South India Diocese of Mysore.

Gurushantha studied divinity at the United Theological College, Bangalore between 1912 and 1916[5]

Gurushantha hailed from a Methodist background; in 1947 he was consecrated as bishop along with eight others at St. George's Cathedral, Chennai.[6]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 K. M. George, Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997, Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp. 36–41. [1]
  2. Rajaiah David Paul, The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1958, p.265. [2]
  3. Mar Aprem, Indian Christian Who is Who, Bombay Parish Church of the East, Bombay, 1983, p. 97. [3]
  4. Bernard Thorogood, Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context: the Story of the London Missionary Society, 1945–1977, WCC, p. 97. [4]
  5. K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), Directory of the United Theological College 1910–1997, Bangalore, 1997. p. 13
  6. Norman Sargant, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920–1950, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1987, pp. 5 and 73. [5]
Religious titles
Preceded by
Post created
Bishop – in –
CSI-Diocese of Mysore

1947–1950
Succeeded by
Norman C. Sargant
1951–1970
Academic offices
Preceded by
Principal,
Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur

-1947
Succeeded by