S. J. Theodore

Bishop Emeritus Sanki John Theodore CSI
Bishop Emeritus – in – Karimnagar
Church	Christian
Diocese	Karimnagar
See	Church of South India
In office	1992-2007
Predecessor	K. E. Swamidass
Successor	P. Surya Prakash
Orders
Consecration	by The Most Reverend Bird Ryder Devapriyam, Moderator, The Right Reverend Jason S. Dharmaraj, Deputy Moderator
Personal details
Previous post	Pastor, Diocese of Karimnagar, Church of South India (1970–1992) Visiting Professor of Old Testament, Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad(1980-1984)

Bishop Emeritus Sanki John Theodore was the fourth Bishop-in-Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India.

John Theodore's spiritual formation was at the United Theological College, Bangalore affiliated to India'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 where he studied the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity from 1966-1970.

After a two-year ministerial work, Theodore again studied from 1972-1974 enrolling for a postgraduate degree of Master of Theology specializing in Old Testament under E. C. John G. M. Butterworth, and Gerhard Wehmeier, working out a dissertation entitled The concept of creation in the Book of Deutero-Isaiah at the United Theological College, Bangalore. Theodore was part the pioneer group of postgraduate students who specialised in Old Testament comprising A. P. Chacko, Basil Rebera, G. Babu Rao, N. K. Achumi, and Timotheas Hembrom. Theodore's graduate and post-graduate degrees were awarded by the University during the Registrarship of Chetti Devasahayam.

Ever since his return in 1970 from the Protestant Seminary in Bangalore, Theodore began to minister parishes in the Dornakal Diocese of the Church of South India until its bifurcation resulting in the creation of Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India in 1978 on account of which he was reassigned to the ecclesiastical Diocese of Karimnagar.