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Nandyal Diocese
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 missionaries who came to Nandyal were Arthur Inman and Alfred Briton in the year 1881. These two missionaries were responsible to establish the 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 and traveled extensively beyond Nandyal to place like Kurnool, Giddalur, Kalasapad, 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 Medras Christian Theologica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of South India
The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India. It is the result of union of a number of mainline Protestant denominations in South India after independence. The Church of South India is the successor of a number of Protestant denominations in India, including the Church of England; Church of India, Burma and Ceylon (Anglican); the United Church of Christ ( Congregationalist); the British Methodist Church; and the Church of Scotland after Indian Independence. It combined the South India United Church (union of the British Congregationalists and the British Presbyterians); the then 14 Anglican dioceses of South India and one in Sri Lanka; and the South Indian District of the Methodist church. The Church of South India is a member of the Anglican Communion, World Methodist Council and World Communion of Reformed Churches. It is one of four united Protestant churches in the Anglican Communion, World Methodist Council and World Communion of Reformed C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the Roman diocese, diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek language, Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into Roman diocese, dioceses based on the Roman diocese, civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the Roman province, provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's State church of the Roman Empire, official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine the Great, Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayalaseema Diocese
Rayalaseema Diocese is a diocese of Church of South India in Andhra Pradesh state of India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ....The diocese one among the 22 dioceses of Church of South India. History Rayalaseema diocese was carved on 15 July 1950 out of then Cuddapah Diocese and Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese of the Church of South India.S. J. Sampath Kumar, ''Genesis growth and activities of Rayalaseema diocese of church of south India a historico social study'', Sri Krishna Deva Raya University, Anantapur, 200/ref> Bishops of the Diocese * Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese * Cuddapah Diocese * Rayalaseema Diocese (Integration of Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese and Cuddapah Diocese) References Further reading * * * * * * {{Churches in India Rayalaseema Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese
Rayalaseema Diocese is a diocese of Church of South India in Andhra Pradesh state of India.The diocese one among the 22 dioceses of Church of South India. History Rayalaseema diocese was carved on 15 July 1950 out of then Cuddapah Diocese and Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese of the Church of South India.S. J. Sampath Kumar, ''Genesis growth and activities of Rayalaseema diocese of church of south India a historico social study'', Sri Krishna Deva Raya University, Anantapur, 200/ref> Bishops of the Diocese * Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese * Cuddapah Diocese *Rayalaseema Diocese Rayalaseema Diocese is a diocese of Church of South India in Andhra Pradesh state of India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populo ... (Integration of Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese and Cuddapah Diocese) References Further reading * * * * * * {{Churches in India Rayalaseema Christianity i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunyan Joseph
Bishop Bunyan Joseph (20 August 1894 – 25 October 1986) was the first and only electedChurch of South India, ''Order of Service for the Consecration of the First New Bishops of The Church of South India'', Printed at London Mission Press, Nagercoil, 1947. Cited by Joseph G. Muthuraj, ''Speaking Truth to Power A Critique of the Church of South India Episcopacy (Governance) of the 21st Century'', Globethics, Geneva, 2015, pp.209-22/ref> Bishop - in - Anantapur-Kurnool Diocese who was consecrated on 27 September 1947 and was among the 15 inaugural Bishops when the Church of South India was inaugurated at the CSI- St. George's Cathedral, Chennai. He was presented for consecration by The Venerable F. F. Gladstone and Canon T. Sithers. to the Presiding Bishop Cherakarottu Korula Jacob, who as the first Moderator, consecrated Bunyan Joseph. Bunyan Joseph began ministering since the 1920s in parts of Andhra Pradesh and in line with the Indian ethos, he made use of the Tanpura, pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha
Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha (born 1956) 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. The Church of South India, part of the Anglican Communion, created history when then Moderator, G. Devakadasham and Deputy Moderator G. Dyvasirvadam consecrated Pushpa Lalitha in 2013 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 of the Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bhadrachalam. The first ordained woman priest in India is Sr. Elizabeth Paul, also of the CSI Order of Sisters. Early years Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha was born to a family of agriculturists in Diguvapadu village in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. She acknowledges the influence of the Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryder Devapriam
Ryder Devapriam (3 July 1931 – 4 September 1992) was systematic theologian who taught during the 1960s and the 1970s at the Andhra Christian Theological College, a Protestant Regional Theologiate in Secunderabad, affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University)'' ''with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal. Devapriam hailed from the Nandyal Diocese of the Church of South India and served as Bishop in Nandyal Diocese from 1985–1992. Constance M. Millington, ''An Ecumenical Venture: The History of Nandyal Diocese in Andhra Pradesh, 1947-1990'', Issue 214 of ATC publication, Asian Trading Corporation, Bengaluru, 1993./ref> Studies General Devapriam pursued graduate and postgraduate degrees from Madras University, Chennai and Nagpur University, Nagpur. Spiritual Devapriam chose the vocation of Priesthood and enrolled for B. D. at the Bishops College, Kolkata where Emani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest John
Ernest John was BishopThe Church of England Year Book, Volumes 88-92, Church of England Church Information Office, 1971, p.233./ref> - in - Diocese of Nandyal, Nandyal from 1967 to 1974. In 1967, the Most Reverend P. Solomon, then Moderator principally consecrated John at the CSI-Holy Cross Cathedral, Nandyal in the presence of the co-consecrator, Lesslie Newbigin James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 – 30 January 1998) was a British theologian, missiologist, missionary and author. Though originally ordained within the Church of Scotland, Newbigin spent much of his career serving as a mis ..., then Deputy Moderator of the Church of South India Synod. References Christian clergy from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century Anglican bishops in India Anglican bishops of Nandyal Indian Christian theologians Senate of Serampore College (University) alumni Possibly living people Indian Christians {{bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Venkataramiah
Clement William Venkataramiah was Bishop of Nandyal. Venkataramiah was educated at St Augustine's College, Canterbury; and ordained in 1930. He was the Warden at the SPG High School at Giddalur from 1930 until 1941; and Chaplain at Igatpuri until 1945. After further stints at Ahmedabad, Deolali, Poona, Parel, Kurduvadi, Byculla and Surat he was appointed Archdeacon of Bombay, serving from 1959 until 1963. He became the first diocesan Bishop of Nandyal in 1963; he was consecrated a bishop by Lakdasa De Mel, Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India in St Thomas' Cathedral, Bombay on the feast of St Mark (25 April) 1963. He was Bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ... for four years. References Alumni of St Augustine's College, Canterbury Archdeac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Diocese Of Calcutta
The Diocese of Calcutta, Church of North India was established in 1813 as part of the Church of England. It is led by the Bishop of Calcutta and the first bishop was Thomas Middleton (1814–1822) and the second Reginald Heber (1823–1826). Under the sixth bishop Daniel Wilson (1832–1858), the see was made Metropolitan (though not made an Archbishopric) when two more dioceses in India came into being (Madras, 1835, and Bombay, 1837). Calcutta was made a metropolitan see by letters patent on 10 October 1835 and in 1930 was included in the Church of India, Burma and Ceylon (from 1948 the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma, and Ceylon) until 1970. In 1970, the Church of the Province of Myanmar, Church of Ceylon and the Church of Pakistan were separated from the province. The Anglican dioceses in Northern India merged with the United Church of Northern India (Congregationalist and Presbyterian), the Methodist Church (British and Australian Conferences), the Council of Baptist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assistant Bishop
An assistant bishop in the Anglican Communion is a bishop appointed to assist a diocesan bishop. Church of England In the established Church of England, assistant bishops are usually retired (diocesan or suffragan) bishops – in which case they are ''honorary assistant bishop''s. Historically, non-retired bishops have been appointed to be assistant bishops – however, unlike a diocesan or suffragan they do not hold a see: they are not the "Bishop of Somewhere". Some honorary assistant bishops are bishops who have resigned their see and returned to a priestly ministry (vicar, rector, canon, archdeacon, dean etc.) in an English diocese. A current example of this is Jonathan Frost, Dean of York, who is also an honorary assistant bishop of the Diocese of York, with membership of the diocesan House of Bishops (i.e. sits and votes with the archbishop and bishops suffragan in Diocesan Synod). Ex-colonials From the mid-19th to the mid-to-late 20th centuries, with the population growth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
