Hospet Sumitra Explained
| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | Bishop |
| Hospet Sumitra, CSI |
| Honorific Suffix: | Ayyagaru |
| Bishop - in - Rayalaseema |
| Church: | Church of South India (A Uniting church comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian and Anglican missionary societies – ABCFM, SPG, WMMS, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, and the Church of England) |
| Diocese: | Rayalaseema |
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| Term: | 1947–1963[1] |
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| Predecessor: | Position created |
| Successor: | L. V. Azariah |
| Consecration: | 27 September 1947 |
| Consecrated By: | Bishop Cherakarottu Korula Jacob[2] |
| Rank: | Bishop |
| Birth Date: | 1888 11, df=yes |
| Death Place: | Bellary, Karnataka |
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| Religion: | Christianity |
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| Profession: | Pastor, Ecclesiastical Administrator |
| Education: | - Pre-University studies,
- B.D. (Serampore)
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| Alma Mater: | - Central College of Bangalore
- United Theological College, Bengaluru
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Hospet Sumitra was the first Bishop in Rayalaseema of the Church of South India.[1]
After graduating from the Central College of Bangalore,[3] he studied theology at the United Theological College, Bengaluru between 1910 and 1913 and was among its first students[4] and studied under L. P. Larsen, J. Mathers, F. Kingsbury, G. E. Phillips, W. H. Thorp, D. S. Herrick, and others.He was Moderator of the Church of South India from 1954 to 1962.[1]
Sumitra died on 19 January 1970[5] in Bellary, Karnataka.
Further reading
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Notes and References
- 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. https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=
- Church 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.209-229.https://www.globethics.net/documents/4289936/13403252/GE_Focus_31_web.pdf
- Rajaiah David Paul, The first decade: an account of the Church of South India, Christian Literature Society, Chennai, 1958. https://books.google.com/books?id=mNEsAAAAIAAJ&q=hospet+sumitra&dq=hospet+sumitra&cd=8
- The United Theological College, Directory 1910-1997, Bengaluru, 1997. p. 12. https://books.google.com/books?id=yCvXPgAACAAJ&dq
- https://books.google.com/books?id=jwrZAAAAMAAJ&q=hospet+sumitra&dq=hospet+sumitra&cd=4 The National Christian Council Review, Volume 90, 1970. p. 120
