Bobbili Prabhudass

Bishopric

The Diocese The Diocese of Dornakal which was ecclesiastically erected in 1912 was led by Bishop V. S. Azariah right from the time of its inception until his sudden death in 1945 In the postcolonialism scenario, the geographical area of the diocese was considerably reduced during the bishopric of A. B. Eliott with the formation of new dioceses and Diocese of Nandyal. he was entitled to use the ecclesiastical prefix The Right Reverend and attended two conclaves of the Church of South India Synod, the seventeenth Synod held at the Madras Christian College, Tambaram from 10–14 January 1980 which elected Solomon Doraiswamy as its Moderator and I. Jesudasan as its Deputy Moderator, composition consisting of, the Baptists (Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars and Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches), the Anglicans, the Congregationalists and the Wesleyans through the Church of South India (Dioceses of Dornakal, Karimnagar, Krishna-Godavari, Madras, Medak, Nandyal, Rayalaseema) the Lutherans (Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church, Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Church and South Andhra Lutheran Church), the Methodists (Methodist Church in India)

The theologiate in which Prabhudass was a Board Member was notable for its Old Testament scholarship throughout India as two Old Testament Scholars Victor Premasagar were teaching at the regional theologiate at that time. Prabhudass provided the required management especially at a time when the Principalship rotated from the Church of South India to the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars due to the election of Victor Premasagar, CSI, Ph.D. (St. Andrews) as General Secretary of the Church of South India Synod in 1980 CBCNC, Ph.D. (Edinburgh) by the Board of Governors.

Honours In 1959, the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society reported, where annual charity events are taken up for creating awareness and mobilizing resources for the mission.