List of the Bishops of Tranquebar

The Bishop of Tranquebar Johnson Gnanabaranam in the bishop's robe of the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tamil Nadu with miter and crook

Bishop of Tranquebar is the title of bishop in the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church ( Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church , TELC) in Tamil Nadu , South India. The TELC was founded in 1919 in the tradition of the Leipzig Mission Association and the Swedish (Lutheran) Mission . The bishop's robe was taken over by the Lutheran Church in Sweden . The Bishop of Tranquebar has his seat in Trichynopoly .

Bishops of Tranquebar

Paul Fleisch: Hundred Years of Lutheran Mission Leipzig, Verl. D. Evangelical Lutheran Mission, 1936
One hundred and fifty years of the Leipzig mission. God's tool for them. World. Documentation. Erlangen: Verl. D. Ev.-Luth. Mission, 1987
Carl Ihmels: A Tamulenkirche is being built. (From the past and present of the Leipzig Mission; H. 7) Leipzig: Verl. D. Evangelical Lutheran Mission, 1936.
Andreas Nehring: Orientalism and Mission. The representation of Tamil society and religion by Leipzig missionaries 1840-1940 , (Studies on the history of Christianity outside of Europe; Vol. 7) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003.
Roland Sckerl: Tranquebar. Pictures from the first hundred years of Lutheran missions in India. Three short biographies based on old reports. Durmersheim, 2006.
Eva-Maria Siebert Johnson: Praise God with hymns and words, with bow songs and sermons. , Leipziger Missionswerk , lecture in Leipzig on June 30, 2012.
Hugald Grafe: Church under Dalits, Adivasi and caste people in South India. The Indian partner churches of the Lutheran churches in Lower Saxony. Becoming and growing. Sources and contributions to the history of the Hermansburger Mission and the Evangelical Lutheran. Missionswerkes in Niedersachsen Vol. 22. LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2013.

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