Bishop in Medak
| Diocese of Medak | |
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| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Territory | Telangana |
| Deaneries | 3 District Church Councils (DCC) (Godavari DCC, Medak DCC, and Town DCC) |
| Subdivisions | 105 Pastorates |
| Headquarters | Medak |
| Statistics | |
| Members | 1/3rds of a million |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Protestant |
| Rite | Uniting church (comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Congregational and Anglican missionary societies – SPG, WMMS, LMS, CMS, and the Church of England) |
| Established | 3 October 1947 |
| Cathedral | Medak Cathedral |
| Secular priests | 200 |
| Language | English, Hindi, Kannada, Lambadi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu |
| Calendar | Church of South India Liturgical calendar |
| Music | Contemporary worship music |
| Current leadership | |
| Parent church | Church of South India Synod |
| Patriarch |
Thomas K. Oommen (Moderator) |
| The Right Reverend | A. C. Solomon Raj |
| Archdeacons |
The Reverend T. Bhaskar (Vice-Chairperson) |
| Emeritus Bishops |
B. P. Sugandhar and T. S. Kanaka Prasad |
| Website | |
| CSI Medak Diocese | |
The Diocese of Medak is one of the prominent Dioceses in the Church of South India, a Protestant Uniting Church with its headquarters in Medak comprising nearly 200Presbyters ministering to Telugu, Lambadi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam,Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu),English and other linguistic groups numbering nearly 1/3rds of a million spread over 105 pastorates and administered through 3 District Church Councils (DCC), namely, the Town DCC, the Medak DCC and the Godavari DCC geographically located in the erstwhile civil districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Medak, Rangareddy, Hyderabad and Mahboobnagar in Telangana.
Saint Bartholomew, one of the Twelve Apostles landed in Maharashtra and began his mission in Kalyan and was followed by Saint Thomas who landed in Gujarat during the reign of King Gondophares and initiated the Gospel in parts of Bharuch and Taxila before traveling southward to Kerala in 52 A.D. where he won many converts and established many churches, eventually traveling to Tamil Nadu where he was martyred in 72 A.D. After centuries of inactivity, the missions were again revived with the arrival of Saint Francis Xavier in 1542 followed by Robert de Nobili in 1605 who arrived in Goa on the western coast. The first Protestant missionaries arrived in 1706 with Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau of the Lutheran Missions who landed at Tranquebar on the eastern coast of Tamil Nadu. However, the modern missions began to take shape only with the arrival of the Baptist Missions in 1793 led by William Carey, the Father of the Modern Missionary Movement.
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