Church of South India
The Church of South India is a member church of the Anglican Communion , the World Council of Methodist Churches and the World Fellowship of Reformed Churches . It was founded on September 27, 1947 in St. George's Cathedral in Chennai by the Association of the Anglican , Congregational , Presbyterian , Reformed and Methodist Churches of South India. As a primate , it is headed by a moderator , because together with the Church of Pakistan , Church of Bangladesh and the Church of North India it forms one of the four united churches of the Anglicans. The Church of South India has a total of around 3.8 million members, making it the second largest Christian church in India after the Roman Catholic Church .
The Church of South India covers the southern part of India ( Andhra Pradesh , Karnataka , Kerala , Tamil Nadu , Puducherry ) and the northeast of Sri Lanka . The rest of Sri Lanka is subject to the Church of Ceylon . The Church of South India unites 22 dioceses , 21 of them in India and one in Sri Lanka (Jaffna):
literature
- Linda Greene: World Methodist Council. Handbook of Information 2002-2006. Biltmore Press, Asheville NC 2002.
- Felix Moderow (ed.): To unity in message and form of the church. Selected from the doctrinal conversations between the Church of South India and Lutheran Churches in South India (1948–1959) . Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1964.
- Norman C. Sargant: From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920–1950 . The Christian Literature Society, Madras 1987.