Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India

Diocese of Medak
Location
CountryIndia
TerritoryTelangana
Deaneries3 District Church Councils (DCC)
(Godavari DCC, Medak DCC, and Town DCC)[1]
Subdivisions105 Pastorates[1]
HeadquartersMedak
Statistics
Members1/3rds of a million[1]
Information
DenominationProtestant
RiteChurch of South India (A Uniting church comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Congregational, Lutheran, Calvinist and Anglican missionary societies – SPG, WMMS, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, and the Church of England)
Established3 October 1947[2]
CathedralMedak Cathedral
Secular priests200[3]
LanguageEnglish, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Lambadi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
CalendarChurch of South India Liturgical calendar
MusicContemporary worship music
Current leadership
Parent churchChurch of South India Synod
PatriarchA. Dharmaraj Rasalam
(Moderator)
The Right ReverendModerator's Commisary (K. Padma Rao)
Vicar GeneralThe Reverend T. Bhaskar
(Vice-Chairperson of the Diocese)[3]
Archdeacons
  • The Rev. Velupula Samuel,[4] CSI, Chairperson, Godavari District Church Council (GDCC),
  • The Rev. M. George Ebenezer Raju,[4] CSI, Chairperson, Medak District Church Council (MDCC),
  • The Rev. John Jonathan,[4] CSI, Chairperson, Town District Church Council (TDCC)
Website
www.csimedakdiocese.org

The Diocese of Medak is one of the prominent Dioceses in the Church of South India, a Protestant Uniting Church with its headquarters in Medak comprising nearly 200[3] Presbyters ministering to Telugu, Lambadi, Tamil,[2] Kannada, Malayalam,[5] Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu),[6] English[2] and other linguistic groups numbering nearly 1/3rds[1] of a million spread over 105[1] pastorates and administered through 3 District Church Councils[1] (DCC), namely, the Town DCC, the Medak DCC and the Godavari DCC geographically located in the erstwhile civil districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Medak, Rangareddy, Hyderabad and Mahboobnagar in Telangana.

  1. ^ a b c d e f 70 years of God's Faithfulness: CSI (Medak Diocese) UK Telugu Christians Souvenir commemorating the 70th year of the formation of the Church of South India, 2016.[1] Archived 27 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c P. Y. Luke, J. B. Carman, Village Christians and Hindu Culture, Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1968, pp.15, 17, 24.[2]
  3. ^ a b c Church of South India Synod - Medak Ministerial Details. [3]
  4. ^ a b c Georgette 2019 - Annual magazine of CSI-St. George's Girls' Grammar School
  5. ^ Immanuel CSI Malayalam Church, Hyderabad
  6. ^ Dinesh K. Agarwal, Great Struggle: Bishop's Story, Patridge publishing, New Delhi, 2016.