K. Reuben Mark

The Right Reverend

K. Reuben Mark, CSI

Ayyagaru
Bishop – in – Karimnagar and Deputy Moderator of CSI Inter-diocesan Office - in - Chennai
Bishop Reuben Mark at the Protestant Regional Theologiate in Secunderabad on 1 January 2019
ChurchChurch of South India (A Uniting church comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Anglican, the Church of England, Lutheran churches, and missionary societies: SPG, WMMS, LMS, Basel Mission, and CMS in India )
DioceseKarimnagar
Elected2015
PredecessorBishop P. Surya Prakash, CSI
SuccessorIncumbent
Previous post(s)Priest, Diocese of Karimnagar, Church of South India (1988–1995), Professor, Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad (1995-2015)
Orders
Ordination1988
by Bishop K. E. Swamidass, CSI at CSI-Wesley Cathedral, Karimnagar
Consecration4 May 2015[1]
by The Most Reverend G. Dyvasirvadam, CSI, then Moderator and Principal consecrator and The Right Reverend Thomas K. Oommen, CSI then Deputy Moderator[1] and co-consecrator
RankBishop
Personal details
Born
Kantipudi Reuben Mark

(1961-03-29) 29 March 1961 (age 63)
NationalityIndian
DenominationChristianity
ResidenceMukarampura, Karimnagar
ParentsSri Shadrach
OccupationPriesthood
EducationB. D. (Serampore),
M. Th. (Serampore),
Ph.D. (Higginbottom)
Alma materUnited Theological College, Bangalore (Karnataka),
University of Copenhagen Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen (Denmark),
Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh)

The Right Reverend K. Reuben Mark is the present (2015[1] onwards) Bishop in Karimnagar[2] and the sixth in succession and occupies the Cathedra of the Bishop placed in Karimnagar's CSI-Wesley Cathedral. Reuben Mark is currently a Council Member[3] for the period 2015–2018 at the fully-ecumenical United Theological College, Bangalore. During the XXXVIth session of Church of South India Synod, Reuben Mark has been elected as Deputy Moderator for the triennium 2020-2023 succeeding V. Prasada Rao.[4]

Before he assumed the ecclesiastical office of the Bishop, Reuben Mark was Professor in Homiletics from 1995 through 2015.[5][6] Mark's professorship was at the Andhra Christian Theological College, affiliated to India's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) {a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}[7] with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.[8]

  1. ^ a b c CSI Synod News, New Bishop consecrated and installed in CSI Karimnagar Diocese, Monday, 18 May 2015. [1]
  2. ^ Anglican Communion, Member Churches.[2]
  3. ^ United Theological College, Bangalore, Council 2015-2018.[3]
  4. ^ George Conger, New moderator for the Church of South India, Anglican Link, January 12, 2020.[4]
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Senate Directory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ P. Surya Prakash, Karimnagar Diocese 133 years and Beyond: Church of South India Karimnagar Diocese - A Story of Transformation (1879-2012), 2013. [5]
  7. ^ The Senate of Serampore College (University) is a University within the meaning of Section 2 (f) of the UGC Act, 1956 under which a University means a University established or incorporated by or under a Central Act, a Provincial Act or a State Act, and includes any such institution as may, in consultation with the University concerned, be recoginsed by the Commission in accordance with the regulations made in this behalf under this Act. The UGC took the opinion that the Senate fell under the purview of Section 2 (f) of the said Act since The Serampore College Act, 1918 was passed by the Government of West Bengal.[6]
  8. ^ Sankar Ray, The Hindu (Business Line), 11 April 2008 Almost a century later, the charter was endorsed officially under the Bengal Govt Act IV of 1918. Internet, accessed 30 November 2008. [7]