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Bishop I. Jesudasan (1925-2013) was the third Bishop-in-South Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India.

Studies

Jesudasan studied at seminaries 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} with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.

He first studied at the Kerala United Theological Seminary, Trivandrum where he took a Licentiate in Theology and then at the Serampore College, Serampore between 1951-1953 where he took a Bachelor of Divinity and then the Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur where he studied for a Master of Theology. In addition he also studied at the Union Theological Seminary (New York City) for a Master of Sacred Theology degree.

Career

While Jesudasan was teaching at the Kerala United Theological Seminary, Trivandrum, he was elected as the third Bishop - in - South Kerala Diocese and consecrated on 5 August 1973 by Moderator, N. D. Ananda Rao Samuel and Lesslie Newbigin, the Deputy Moderator.

During the seventeenth Church of South India Synod held from 10–14 January 1980 at the Madras Christian College, Tambaram, Jesudasan was elected as the Deputy Moderator and held the office from 1980 to 1982. Again during the eighteenth Church of South India Synod held from 11–15 January 1982 at Vellore, Jesudasan became the Moderator and held the office three consecutive terms up to 1988.

Jesudasan retired from the bishopric on 14 February 1990 on attaining superannuation. The Senate of Serampore College (University) awarded an honorary doctorate degree upon Jesudasan in 1989.

On 16 June 2013, Jesudasan died due to ill health.

References

1. ^ 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.62-65, 107-109.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. S. J. Samartha, M. P. John (Compiled), Directory of students 1910-1967, Serampore College (Theology Department), Serampore, 1967, p.16.
5. ^ Former Moderator Most Rev. I Yesudasn passes away, Official Website of CSI Parish Kattakada, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
6. Moderator I. R. H. Gnanadason became ill as per the volume by K. M. George, p.104.
7. List of the Recipients of the Degree of Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa), Senate of Serampore College (University). Archived 11 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine
8. Bishop I. Jesudasan passes away, The Hindu, June 17, 2013, Thiruvananthapuram.

• Malayali people
• 21st-century Anglican bishops in India
• Anglican bishops of South Kerala
• Indian Christian theologians
• Senate of Serampore College (University) alumni
• 1925 births
• 2013 deaths
• Leonard Theological College alumni
• Moderators of the Church of South India