G. D. V. Prasad is an

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scholar and translator who was the Director of Translations at the

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, Bangalore, from 1991 to 2010. Prasad is from the

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of the

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Spiritual studies

West Bengal

After initial graduate studies in

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at the Andhra University, Prasad discerned his avocation towards priesthood and was sent by N. D. Anandarao Samuel, then Bishop-in- Krishna-Godavari for propadeutic studies to the Bishop’s College, Calcutta where he pursued a graduate degree in divinity along with his companion, G. Dyvasirvadam, also hailing from the

. Later, the Senate of Serampore College (University) awarded Prasad a degree in

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during the Registrarship of

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Karnataka

For postgraduate studies, Prasad enrolled at the

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in 1979 where he specialised in the

under Theodore N. Swanson and E. C. John, a direct student of Gerhard von Rad and Claus Westermann. Companions of Prasad during his postgraduate studies included M. Devadas and G. Devakadasham. Prasad's study period at the Seminary in Bangalore coincided with the Old Testament scholar

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G. Babu Rao's research studies. After two years in Bangalore, Prasad completed his studies in 1981 and was awarded a postgraduate degree,

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, by the Senate of Serampore College (University) in its ensuing convocation held in 1982 at the Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore during the Registrarship of the New Testament Scholar,

Scotland

After a period of

ecclesiastical {{Short pages monitor In 2001 when T. B. D. Prakasa Rao took voluntary retirement from the

, Prasad chose not to contest the bishopric paving way for the election and subsequent consecration of G. Dyvasirvadam, his companion at the Bishop’s College, Calcutta as the fifth CSI-Bishop-in- Krishna-Godavari Diocese.

References

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