Isaiah Jesudason
Isaiah Jesudason | |
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| Bishop – in – Trivandrum (-1972) |
Bishop I. Jesudasan (1925-2013) was the third
Studies
Jesudasan studied at seminaries affiliated to India's first[2] University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) {a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}[3] with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.
He first studied at the
Career
While Jesudasan was teaching at the
During the seventeenth Church of South India Synod held from 10–14 January 1980[1] at the Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Jesudasan was elected as the Deputy Moderator and held the office from 1980 to 1982. Again during the eighteenth Church of South India Synod held from 11–15 January 1982[1] at Vellore, Jesudasan became the Moderator and held the office three consecutive terms up to 1988.[1]
Jesudasan retired from the bishopric on 14 February 1990[1] on attaining superannuation. The Senate of Serampore College (University) awarded an honorary doctorate degree upon Jesudasan in 1989.[7]
On 16 June 2013,[8] Jesudasan died due to ill health.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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.62-65, 107-109. [1]
- ^ Sankar Ray, The Hindu (Business Line), 11 April 2008 Almost a century later, the charter was endorsed officially under the Bengal Govt Act IV of 1918. Internet, accessed 30 November 2008. [2]
- ^ The Senate of Serampore College (University) is a University within the meaning of Section 2 (f) of the UGC Act, 1956 under which a University means a University established or incorporated by or under a Central Act, a Provincial Act or a State Act, and includes any such institution as may, in consultation with the University concerned, be recoginsed by the Commission in accordance with the regulations made in this behalf under this Act. The UGC took the opinion that the Senate fell under the purview of Section 2 (f) of the said Act since The Serampore College Act, 1918 was passed by the Government of West Bengal.
- M. P. John(Compiled), Directory of students 1910-1967, Serampore College (Theology Department), Serampore, 1967, p.16.
- ^ a b Former Moderator Most Rev. I Yesudasn passes away, Official Website of CSI Parish Kattakada, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala [3]
- ^ Moderator I. R. H. Gnanadason became ill as per the volume by K. M. George, p.104.
- ^ List of the Recipients of the Degree of Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa), Senate of Serampore College (University). [4] Archived 11 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bishop I. Jesudasan passes away, The Hindu, June 17, 2013, Thiruvananthapuram. [5]
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