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and seventh Bishop–in–Medak for the

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of the

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(CSI) during the period 2009–2012.

Ministerial formation

During the bishopric of H. D. L. Abraham, Kanaka Prasad entered the priesthood and studied spirituality in ecclesiastical institutions in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Andhra Pradesh

Ramayapatnam

Kanaka Prasad first underwent a year of propadeutic studies at the STBC-Ramayapatnam Baptist Theological College in

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in Nellore district during the principalship of

Louis F. Knoll Louis F. Knoll (died 2004) was an American Baptist missionary who taught Christian Ethics at the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad, affiliated with the Senate of Serampore College (University). Robert Eric Frykenberg, Professor Em ...

Talathoti Punnaiah, ''My Memoir, Ministry and Message: 60 years Life Experiences 1950-2010'', Kakinada, 2010, p.27. where he was also taught by the

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scholar, G. Solomon and the Church historian R. Joseph.

Rajahmundry

After a year of study at

, Kanaka Prasad moved to the

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then located at Rajahmundry where he enrolled for spiritual studies during the principalship of

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and studied under notable faculty including G. Devasahayam, W. P. Peery, G. Solomon,

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, S. Joseph,

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B. E. Devaraj B. E. Devaraj was a translator who pioneered the Lambadi version of the New Testament. He was Acting Commissary and Vicar General of the Archdeaconry of Nandyal from 1950 to 1951. Devaraj also taught in the Andhra Christian Theological Colleg ...

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and

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Telangana

Kanaka Prasad then studied at the

, which by then had moved to Hyderabad, during the period of the

scholars,

, CSI and G. Babu Rao,

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Bishopric

When

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retired from the bishopric, T. S. Kanaka Prasad contested the vacant bishopric and was elected as the eighth

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and consecrated on 17 August 2009 at the CSI-

Medak Cathedral Medak Cathedral at Medak in Telangana, India, is one of the largest churches in India and has been the cathedral church of the Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India since 1947. Originally built by Charles Walker Posnett British Wesleya ...

by then Moderator, The Most Reverend John Wilson Gladstone, the principal consecrator and The Right Reverend Christopher Asir, the co-consecrator in the presence of bishops including

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, Bishop - in - Karimnagar, P. J. Lawrence Bishop - in - Nandyal and others as well as clergy from the

led by A. C. Solomon Raj, who succeeded Kanaka Prasad to the bishopric of Medak.