B. Prabhudass

Bishop

Bishop Babbili Prabhudass

CSI
Bishop
ChurchChurch of South India
DioceseKarimnagar
SeeCSI-Wesley Cathedral, Karimnagar
Elected1978
In office1978-1982
PredecessorPosition created[1]
SuccessorG. Benjamin Devasahayam[1]
Previous post(s)Priest, Diocese of Dornakal, Church of South India (1945-1974)
Lecturer, United Theological College, Bangalore(1974-1977[2])
Orders
Ordination1945
by Bishop Anthony Blacker Elliott
Consecration1978, CSI-Wesley Cathedral, Karimnagar
by The Most Reverend N. D. Ananda Rao Samuel (Principal Consecrator) and
The Right Reverend Solomon Doraiswamy (Co-consecrator)[1]
RankBishop
Personal details
Born
Babbili (Bobbili[3]) Prabhudass
Died1996[4]
BuriedChristian Cemetery, Narayanguda,[5] Hyderabad
17.4000° N, 78.0167° E
NationalityIndian
DenominationChristianity
OccupationPriesthood
EducationB.D. (Serampore),[2]
M. Th. (Serampore),[2]
Alma materUnited Theological College, Bangalore[2]

Bishop Babbili Prabhudass[6] (died 1996[4]) was the first[1] elected Bishop - in - Karimnagar Diocese of the Church of South India which was ecclesiastically bifurcated from the Diocese of Dornakal of the Church of South India in early 1978. Prabhudass led the bishopric for a period of five years from 1978 through 1982.[1]

Prior to assuming the ecclesiastical office of the Bishop, Prabhudass was a seminary teacher[2] from 1974 to 1977 during the principalship of the Systematic Theologian Joshua Russell Chandran at a fully ecumenical[7][8] United Theological College, Bangalore, a Theologiate in Bangalore which had co-faculty drawn from the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate-Dharmaram College in Bangalore.

  1. ^ a b c d e K. M. George, Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997, Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp.23, 34, 61, 106-108. [1]
  2. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference Hiwale was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Anantha Sudhaker Babbili, The Road from Poodur in Biographical Passages: Essays in Victorian and Modernist Biography : Honouring Mary M. Lago, University of Missouri, North America, 2000, p.128. [2]
  4. ^ a b David S. T. Driver, Deans father's foundation, Indian student group directly fund relief for tsunami victims in India in Middle Tennessee State University, Volume 80, Number 62, March 2, 2005. [3]
  5. ^ Hopewallaw Incorporated
  6. ^ The Church of England Year Book, Volume 97, 1981, p.249. [4]
  7. ^ fully ecumenical that is Catholics and Orthodox included.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Shared was invoked but never defined (see the help page).