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Church
  
Christian

Name
  
Norman Sargant

Diocese
  
Diocese of Mysore)

Died
  
1982


See
  
Church of South India

Successor
  
Ken Gill

In office
  
1951-1970

Predecessor
  
Premaka Gurushantha

Consecration
  
12 April 1951 at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore

Norman C. Sargant (1909-1982) was the second Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore. Norman was the brother of Thomas Sargant.

Contents

Norman studied Bachelor of Arts who came to India as a Methodist Missionary in 1931 and was a member of the Church History Association of India.

Writings

Norman C. Sargant wrote the following books,

  • Date unknown, History of the Protestant Church (in Karnataka),
  • Date unknown, My Dear Boy: Letters from Norman Thomas Carr Sargant to His Son Norman Carr Sargant : September 1939-January 1946,
  • Date unknown, The Life Story of an Indian Minister: The Rev. Henry Premaka, 1850-1922,
  • 1940, The Dispersion of the Tamil Church,
  • 1944, A Letter from Mysore,
  • 1952, W. E. Tomlinson: a memoir and some papers,
  • 1963, The Lingayats: The Vira-Saiva Religion’’,
  • 1963, A charge delivered by Norman Carr Sargant, second bishop in Mysore, at a meeting of the presbyters and deacons attending the ninthe Diocesan Council at Hubli, November 14th 1963,
  • 1976, India : A Christian View,
  • 1985, India, My Appointed Place": An Account of Mary Carpenter's Four Journeys to India,
  • 1987, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920-1950. This book is preserved at the National Library, Government of India, New Delhi,
  • 1987, Mary Carpenter in India,
  • Records

    The correspondence of Sargant are kept at two locations, one at the Cadbury Research Library Special Collections at the University of Birmingham and the other at Norman Carr Collection at Information Services, Orchard Learning Resources Centre, University of Birmingham.

    References

    Norman C. Sargant Wikipedia