B. P. Sugandhar

Peter Sugandhar
Bishop
Church	Christianity
See	Medak
In office	1993–2009
Predecessor	Victor Premasagar
Successor	T. S. Kanaka Prasad
Orders
Consecration	September 1993
Personal details
Born	28 September 1944 Ramayampet, Medak Dist, Andhra Pradesh
Previous post	Presbyter-in-Charge

Badda Peter Sugandhar (B. P. Sugandhar; known as Peter) was the fifth successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop in Medak in the Church of South India (CSI). He was consecrated by Vasant P. Dandin, the then Moderator of the CSI in the Cathedral in Medak in September 1993.

He was an office-bearer of the Andhra Pradesh Federation of Churches, (APFC) a society that incorporates bishops of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Indigenous Church traditions and whose members strive for ecumenism.

At the United Theological College, the only autonomous college under the Senate of Serampore College, in Bangalore Sugandhar took a BD degree. After graduation, the Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India posted him to churches in Ramayampet, Yellareddy, Utnoor, Bellampally, Medak and Secunderabad.

He served as Presbyter-in-charge at the Church of St. John the Baptist, Secunderabad before being consecrated as the Bishop in Medak. Although a Resident Presbyter has been appointed in that Church, Sugandhar continued to be the Presbyter-in-charge of the Church of St. John the Baptist till the end of his bishopric.

When Victor Premasagar's tenure as Bishop of Medak came to an end in 1992, the Synod of the CSI declared Sugandhar as his successor.

The 27th and 28th Synods of the CSI voted to elect the bishop as the Deputy Moderator of the CSI. During the 29th Synod of the CSI held in Bangalore from 10 to 14 January 2004, Sugandhar was elected as Moderator of the CSI replacing his predecessor Dr. K. J. Samuel. Subsequently, in the 30th Synod held in Mysore, he was re-elected as the Moderator.

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