C. D. Jathanna

Constantine Devaprasad Jathanna
Bishop in Karnataka Central Diocese of Church of South India
Church	Christian
Diocese	Karnataka Central Diocese
See	Church of South India
In office	1983-1993
Predecessor	Kenneth E. Gill
Successor	S. Vasantha Kumar
Orders
Ordination	1960
Consecration	by I. Jesudasan, Moderator and Sundar Clarke, Deputy Moderator, Church of South India Synod
Personal details
Born	6 July 1928 Shirva,Karnataka
Died	23 July 1996 Shirva, Udupi district, Mangalore
Parents	R. D. Jathanna
Previous post	Principal, Karnataka Theological College, Mangalore

C. D. Jathanna (Born 6 July 1928, Died 1996) was the fourth Bishop - in - Karnataka Central Diocese headquartered in Bangalore with the Cathedra of the Bishop placed at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore.

Jathanna studied Bachelor of Arts completing it by 1951. For a year he worked as a Rationing Officer with the Government of Tamil Nadu (erstwhile Government of Madras) before proceeding for spiritual studies at the United Theological College, Bangalore during the years 1952-1955 where he studied along with E. C. John, Victor Premasagar, N. D. Ananda Rao Samuel and others.

In 1958 he pursued a postgraduate degree, Master of Theology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia entitling his dissertation as Torah and Berith in the Pentateuch.

In 1964, Jathanna went on study leave to the University of Hamburg, Hamburg where he studied Old Testament at the Faculty of Evangelical Theology under Klaus Koch, a direct student of Gerhard von Rad and was able to complete his doctoral dissertation in 1967 under the supervision of Professors Hans Joachim Kraus and Marie-Louise Henry which was later published in 1969 under the title The Covenant and covenant making in Pentateuch.

After completing studies in spirituality at the United Theological College, Bangalore in 1955, Jathanna was the Secretary of the Student Christian Movement (Karnataka Unit) from 1955 through 1957.

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