Church of South India

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St. Mary's Church in Chennai

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):

diocese Seat State / State bishop
Diocese of Chennai (Madras) Chennai Tamil Nadu Vedanayagam Devasahayam
Diocese of Coimbatore Coimbatore Tamil Nadu Manickam Dorai
Diocese of Dornakal Dornakal Andhra Pradesh Bachu Satyanandam Devamani
Bishopric of Jaffna Jaffna Sri Lanka Daniel Selvaratnam Thiagarajah
Kanyakumari diocese Rodent coil Tamil Nadu Gnanasigamony Devakadasham
Diocese of Karimnagar Karimnagar Andhra Pradesh Perumalla Surya Prakash
Diocese of Central Carnataka Bangalore Karnataka Suputhrappa Vasantha Kumar
Diocese of Northern Carnataka Dharwad Karnataka Jeedipalli Prabhakara Rao
Diocese of South Carnataka Mangalore Karnataka John Sadananda
Diocese of North Kerala Shoranur Kerala Kadakkal Pothen Kuruvila
Diocese of East Kerala Melukavumattom Kerala Kayalakkakathu George Daniel
Diocese of South Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Dharmaraj Rasalam
Diocese of Krishna Godavari Machilipatnam Andhra Pradesh Govada Dyvasirvadam
Diocese of Madhya Kerala Kottayam Kerala Thomas Kanjirappally Oommen
Diocese of Madurai-Ramnad Madurai Tamil Nadu Gnanasigamony Devakadasham
Diocese of Medak Secunderabad Andhra Pradesh Thalari Samuel Kanaka Prasad
Diocese of Nandyal Nandyal Andhra Pradesh Pushpa Lalitha
Diocese of Rayalaseema Kadapa Andhra Pradesh Kommaddi Birru Yesuvaraprasad
Diocese of Thoothukudi-Nazareth Thoothukudi Tamil Nadu John Jacob Jebachandran
Diocese of Tirunelveli Tirunelveli Tamil Nadu Jayaraj Christdoss
Diocese of Trichy-Tanjore Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu Gnanamuthu Paul Vasanthakumar
Diocese of Vellore Vellore Tamil Nadu A. Rajavelu

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.

Web links

Commons : Churches of the Church of South India  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also