Premaka Gurushantha

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
In office	1947–1950 [1]
Successor	Norman C. Sargant
Previous posts	Principal, [2] Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur (now merged into Karnataka Theological College)
Orders
Consecration	4 October 1947 [1]
Personal details
Born	2 September 1887 [3] Tumkur, Karnataka

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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]

References

1. 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.
2. Mar Aprem, Indian Christian Who is Who, Bombay Parish Church of the East, Bombay, 1983, p. 97.
3. Rajaiah David Paul, The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1958, p.265.
4. Bernard Thorogood, Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context: the Story of the London Missionary Society, 1945–1977, WCC, p. 97.
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.

Religious titles
Preceded by Post created	Bishop – in – CSI-Diocese of Mysore 1947–1950	Succeeded by Norman C. Sargant 1951–1970
Academic offices
Preceded by	Principal, Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur -1947	Succeeded by