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]