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Bird Ryder Devapriyam

Bishop
B. R. Devapriam, CSI
D. D. (Honoris Causa)
CSI-Bishop – in – Nandyal
Native name మహ గనుడు రైడర్ దేవప్రియం అయ్యాగారు
Church Protestant Church of South India
(comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Congregational and Anglican missionary societies - SPG, WMMS, LMS, CMS, and the Church of England)
Diocese Nandyal
See CSI-Holy Cross Cathedral, Nandyal
Elected 1985
In office 25 August 1985 – 4 September 1992
Predecessor P. John, CSI
Successor G. T. Abraham, CSI
Orders
Consecration 1985,CSI-Holy Cross Cathedral, Nandyal
by The Most Reverend I. Jesudasan, , CSI, Bishop - in - South Kerala and Moderator (Principal consecrator), The Right Reverend Sundar Clarke, CSI, Bishop - in - Madras and Deputy Moderator (Co-consecrator)
Rank Bishop
Personal details
Birth name Billa Ryder Devapriam
Born (1931-07-03)3 July 1931
Andhra Pradesh
Died 4 September 1992(1992-09-04) (aged 61)
Germany
Buried Nandyal
Nationality Indian
Denomination Christianity
Occupation Priesthood
Profession Pastor, Diocese of Nandyal, Church of South India (1956-1982)
Teacher, Andhra Christian Theological College, Rajahmundry/Secunderabad
Education B.A.(Madras),
B.Ed. (Madras),
M.A. (Nagpur),
B.D. (Serampore),
S.T.M. (McCormick),
(Th.D. GTS)
Alma mater Madras University,Chennai,
Nagpur University, Nagpur,
Bishop's College, Kolkata, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago,
General Theological Seminary, New York City

Ryder Devapriam (3 July 1931 – 4 September 1992) was Systematic Theologian who taught during the Sixties and the Seventies at the Andhra Christian Theological College, a Protestant Regional Theologiate in Secunderabad, affiliated to the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (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.

Devapriam hailed from the Nandyal Diocese of the Church of South India and was Bishop - in - Nandyal from 1985 to 1992.

Devapriam pursued graduate(Madras), and postgraduate(Madras), degrees from the Madras University,(Madras),Chennai and the Nagpur University, Nagpur.

Devapriam chose the vocation of Priesthood and enrolled for B. D. at the Bishops College,Kolkata where Emani Sambayya happened to be one of the Spiritual Formators.


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