Church Church of South India Ordination 1967 Successor P. J. Lawrence | Predecessor Ryder Devapriam See Diocese of Nandyal Name G. Abraham | |
In office 28 December 1994 – 25 September 2005 | ||
Gondi Theodore Abraham was Bishop of Nandyal Diocese of the Church of South India. He also taught Christian Ministry at the Andhra Christian Theological College. Hyderabad
Studies
Abraham studied sciences at the Government Arts College in Kadapa. He later enrolled at the United Theological College, Bengaluru and studied theology (B. D.) during 1962-1966 when Joshua Russell Chandran was the College Principal. As part of the University requirements, Abraham submitted a dissertation entitled Azariah of Dornakal after which the Senate of Serampore College (University) under the Registrarship of Chetti Devasahayam awarded him a graduate degree. Later, Abraham was assigned pastoral roles in the parishes of Nandyal Diocese. Abraham later undertook post-graduate studies in theology at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia and returned for parish work in the Diocese. He was later deputed to teach at the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad.
While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.