Premaka Gurushantha Explained

Type:Bishop
Premaka Gurushantha
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
Church:Christian
Diocese:Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
See:Church of South India
Term:1947–1950
Successor:Norman C. Sargant
Consecration:4 October 1947
Birth Date:2 September 1887[1]
Birth Place:Tumkur, Karnataka
Previous Post:Principal,[2] Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur (now merged into Karnataka Theological College)

Premaka Gurushantha (born 2 September 1887, died 1950) was the first[3] [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]

Notes and References

  1. Rajaiah David Paul, The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1958, p.265. https://books.google.com/books?id=mNEsAAAAIAAJ&q=Premaka
  2. Mar Aprem, Indian Christian Who is Who, Bombay Parish Church of the East, Bombay, 1983, p. 97. https://books.google.com/books?id=u2s5AAAAMAAJ&q=premaka
  3. 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=
  4. 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
  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. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ts0WAAAAIAAJ&q=Premaka+Gurushantha