Victor Premasagar

Bishop

P. Victor Premasagar, CSI

B. D. (Serampore), M. A. (Cambridge), Ph. D. (St. Andrews)
The Right Reverend
ChurchChurch of South India
DioceseMedak
Elected1983
In office1983–1992
PredecessorB. G. Prasada Rao
SuccessorB. P. Sugandhar
Previous post(s)General secretary, Church of South India Synod, Chennai, (1980–1983), principal, Andhra Christian Theological College, Secunderabad (1973–1980), professor of Old Testament, Andhra Christian Theological College, Secunderabad (1966–1980)
Orders
Ordinationby Frank Whittaker
Consecration1983
by I. Jesudason
RankBishop
Personal details
Born
Peddi Victor Premasagar

(1927-10-14)14 October 1927
Dudgaon, Telangana
Died1 December 2005(2005-12-01) (aged 78)
St. Joseph's General Hospital, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
BuriedSecunderabad Cantonment
NationalityIndian
DenominationChristianity
OccupationPriesthood
EducationB. D., M. A., Ph. D.
Alma materAndhra Christian College, Guntur (Andhra Pradesh),
United Theological College, Bangalore (Karnataka),
Westminster College, Cambridge (England),
St Mary's College, Fife (Scotland)

Victor Premasagar (1927–2005) was the fourth successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop in Medak. He was an Indian churchman and Old Testament scholar who made major contributions to research on the Old Testament and to the field of theology. Premasagar's articles appeared in the Expository Times (1966),[1] the Vetus Testamentum (1966),[2] the International Review of Mission (1972),[3] and the Indian Journal of Theology (1974) and cited in major works relating to the theme of Promise[4][5] in the Bible and critical works on Psalms LXXX[6][7] and the Hebrew word HOQ[8][9] in the Tanakh.

Premasagar was a pastor hailing from the Church of South India who tended rural congregations in the Diocese of Medak in north Telangana until 1961 when he became a seminary teacher at Dornakal and then moving out to Rajahmundry and later Secunderabad in 1972 and taught Old Testament. In 1980, the Church of South India recalled Premasagar to take up ministerial responsibilities and made him general secretary of the Church of South India Synod at its XVIIth session of the held at Tambaram. In 1983, Premasagar became a bishop and subsequently a moderator of the Church of South India Synod for two consecutive bienniums: 1988–1990 and 1990–1992.[10]

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  5. ^ Walter Kaiser, Jr., The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1978, p.53.[1]
  6. ^ John Goldingay, Psalms: Psalms 42–89, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2007, p.540.[2]
  7. ^ Frank-Lothar Hossfeld, Erich Zenger, Linda M. Maloney, Klaus Baltzer, Psalms 2: A Commentary on Psalms 51–100, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2005, p.308.[]
  8. ^ Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Volume 79, 1967, p.110.[3]
  9. ^ H. Muszynski, Fundament, Bild und Metapher in Den Handschriften Aus Qumran, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, p.vi. [4]
  10. ^ Former bishop passes away, The Hindu, 12 December 2005