Premaka Gurushantha | |
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Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore | |
Church | Christian |
Diocese | Church of South India Diocese of Mysore |
See | Church of South India |
In office | 1947–1950 [1] |
Successor | Norman C. Sargant |
Orders | |
Consecration | 4 October 1947 [1] |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 September 1887
[2] |
Previous post(s) | Principal, [3] Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur (now merged into Karnataka Theological College) |
Premaka Gurushantha (born 2 September 1887, died 1950) was the first [1] [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]