Hospet Sumitra
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Bishop Hospet Sumitra, CSI Ayyagaru | |
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Bellary, Karnataka | |
| Denomination | Christianity |
| Profession | Pastor, Ecclesiastical Administrator |
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Hospet Sumitra was the first
Bishop in Rayalaseema of the Church of South India.[1]
After graduating from the
Bengaluru between 1910 and 1913 and was among its first students[5]
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 1970Bellary, Karnataka.
Further reading
- Rajaiah David Paul (1972). "Ecumenism in action: a historical survey of the Church of South India".
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- Notes
- ^ a b c 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. [1]
- ^ 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.[2]
- ^ a b The National Christian Council Review, Volume 90, 1970. p. 120
- ^ Rajaiah David Paul, The first decade: an account of the Church of South India, Christian Literature Society, Chennai, 1958. [3]
- ^ The United Theological College, Directory 1910-1997, Bengaluru, 1997. p. 12. [4]