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Premaka Gurushantha

Premaka Gurushantha
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
Church Christian
Diocese Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
See Church of South India
In office 1947–1950
Successor Norman C. Sargant
Orders
Consecration 4 October 1947
Personal details
Born 2 September 1887
Tumkur, Karnataka
Previous post Principal, Union Kanarese Seminary, Tumkur (now merged into Karnataka Theological College)

Premaka Gurushantha (born 2 September 1887, died 1950) was the first Bishop in the Church of South India Diocese of Mysore.

Gurushantha studied divinity at the United Theological College, Bangalore between 1912 and 1916

Gurushantha hailed from a Methodist background; in 1947 he was consecrated as Bishop along with eight others at St. George's Cathedral, Chennai.


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