William Karl (born in Nilgiris 11 July 1915 – died in Bangalore 8 March 2019) [1] was the inaugural Bishop of Northern Karnataka of the Church of South India, [2] serving from 1970 to 1980. [3]
Karl was educated at St. Joseph’s College in Bangalore. He was ordained in 1945. He was the field secretary to the India Sunday School Union from 1953 to 1958. He also served in Mysore and Bangalore. In 2015 Bishop Karl celebrated his 100th birthday.
The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India. It is the result of union of a number of Protestant denominations in South India that occurred after the independence of India.
Bishop Cotton Boys' School is an all-boys school for boarders and day scholars in Bengaluru, India, founded in the memory of Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop of Calcutta.
Karnataka Theological College(founded in 1847) is an ecumenical seminary catering to the Kannada-speaking students wishing to pursue the priestly vocation. KTC is located in Mangalore of Karnataka in South India, and is affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College.
B. P. Sugandhar was the fifth successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop - in - Medak of the Church of South India whose bishopric lasted for more than a decade and half from 1993 through 2009 coinciding with the archbishoprics of Samineni Arulappa and Marampudi Joji of the Archdiocese of Hyderabad.
Henry Diwakar Luther Abraham was the second successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop in Medak and an able administrator.
Hospet Sumitra was the first Bishop in Rayalaseema of the Church of South India.
Methodist Church in India is a Protestant Christian denomination of India.
The Karnataka Central Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India covering the central part of Karnataka. The Church of South India is a United Protestant denomination.
Karnataka Northern Diocese is one among the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India which covers the churches in the northern part of Karnataka state. The Church of South India is a United Protestant denomination.
Karnataka Southern Diocese is one of the twenty-two dioceses of the Church of South India covering the southern part of Karnataka. The other Church of South India dioceses in Karnataka are Karnataka Northern Diocese and Central Karnataka Diocese. The Church of South India is a United Protestant denomination.
Premaka Gurushantha was the first bishop in the Church of South India Diocese of Mysore.
C. D. Jathanna was the fourth Bishop - in - Karnataka Central Diocese headquartered in Bangalore with the Cathedra of the Bishop placed at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore.
C. L. Furtado is CSI-Bishop Emeritus - in - Karnataka Southern of Church of South India. Furtado became the third Bishop on 25 August 1997, the date on which he was consecrated as Bishop in the diocese that is headquartered in Mangalore with the Cathedra of the Bishop placed at CSI-Shanthi Cathedral, Mangalore.
D. P. Shettian was the second Bishop - in - Karnataka Southern Diocese of Church of South India headquartered in Mangalore where the Bishop's Cathedra is placed at the CSI-Shanthi Cathedral, Balmatta, Mangalore.
Bishop Kallepalli E. Swamidass was the third Bishop of the Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India.
Bishop Babbili Prabhudass(died 1996) was the first elected Bishop - in - Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India which was ecclesiastically bifurcated from the Diocese of Dornakal of the Church of South India in early 1978. Prabhudass led the bishopric for a period of five years from 1978 through 1982.
Bishop Emeritus John S. Sadananda was the Master of Serampore College (University), the nation's first University {a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}) with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.
A. C. Solomon Raj is the seventh successor of Frank Whittaker and eighth Bishop in Medak of the Protestant Church of South India Society and shepherds the Diocese from the Cathedra of the Bishop housed in the CSI-Medak Cathedral in Medak Town, Telangana, India. On 12 October 2016, the Church of South India Synod headquartered in Chennai, appointed Solomon Raj to assume the ecclesiastical Office of the Bishopric of Medak and was consecrated the next day on 13 October 2016 at the CSI-St. George's Cathedral, Chennai, ending four years of sede vacante in the Diocese of Medak which was without a bishop during the intervening period of 2012–2016.
Peter Machado is an Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Prasana Kumar Samuel is an Anglican bishop in the Church of South India: he has been Bishop of Karnataka Central since 2009 and retired in 2023