P. Surya Prakash
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Bishop Emeritus P. Surya Prakash CSI |
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| Bishop Emeritus – in – Karimnagar | |
| Church | Christian |
| Diocese | Karimnagar |
| See | Church of South India |
| In office | 2007–2014 |
| Predecessor | S. John Theodore |
| Successor | K. Reuben Mark |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 31 July 1977, Medak by The Right Reverend B. G. Prasada Rao, Bishop - in - Medak |
| Consecration | 26 March 2007 by The Most Reverend B. P. Sugandhar, Moderator |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
28 February 1949 Dudgaon, Nizamabad District, Andhra Pradesh |
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Bishop Emeritus P. Surya Prakash was the fifth Bishop-in-Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India. from 2007 through 2014 and occupied the Cathedra in Karimnagar's Wesley Cathedral. He retired on account of superannuation in 2014 following which the Church of South India Synod headquartered in Chennai appointed a successor to him in 2015.
After discerning his avocation towards priesthood, Surya Prakash entered the portals of a Protestant Seminary in 1972 in Bangalore where he studied spirituality leading to the award of the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1976 after which he began pastoring parishes within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Medak, Church of South India. In 1980, Surya Prakash went on to major in Greek and New Testament and became a member of the Society for Biblical Studies, India in which his Professor, J. G. F. Collison was already a distinguished member. Again from 1982, Surya Prakash continued to pastor parishes of the Diocese of Medak until Victor Premasagar sent him for doctoral studies in 1987 to the Kirchliche Hochschule, Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany where researched on Homiletics specializing in indigenous movements and Churches in India, especially the work of Sadhu Sundar Singh. Roger E. Hedlund, the Missiologist with major contribution to indigenous Christianity in India terms Surya Prakash as a leading authority on Sadhu Sundar Singh.
From 1991 onwards, Surya Prakash spent nearly a decade teaching Homiletics at the United Theological College, Bangalore, an autonomous College affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University) until 2000 when he went to Stuttgart as India Liaison Secretary of the EMS succeeding Luise Plock who bridged the gap after C. L. Furtado. After a distinguished record at Stuttgart, Surya Prakash returned to India in 2005 donning the role of a Presbyter at the Diocese of Medak until his elevation to the Bishopric in 2007 in the adjoining Diocese of Karimnagar to succeed the Old Testament Scholar and Bishop S. J. Theodore who retired on attaining superannuation.
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