Navamani Elia Peter

Early life and education Peter was born in the port town of Machilipatnam in Northern Circars (Madras Presidency) in Colonial India on 6 April 1944. It was here that she was exposed to learned faculty comprising After completion of her studies, The Senate of Serampore College (University), led by Registrar D. S. Satyaranjan, IPC, and international institutional leadership and management meetings, notably the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians sponsored national consultation on women's perspectives held in India in 1984, the World Council of Churches Assembly held in Australia in 1991 and the World Methodist Conference held in Brazil in 1996. She was also at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities) at its forty-ninth session held in Switzerland in 1997.

Offices held During the course of participation in international institutional meetings, Peter had been elected to the leadership of many global organisations worldwide. President/Chairperson All India Women's Society of Christian Service All India Council of Christian Women The India Bible Society Trust Association Vice-president World Federation of Methodist Women Asian Church Women's Conference on the basis of Navamani's Praisy David, a 2020 student of Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Navamani's writings appeared in the public domain since the 1980s. She continued to write articles through The Upper Room.

Death Peter died on 29 June 2025, at the age of 92.

Honours In 2000, in recognition of women's leadership, the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) conferred upon Navamani an honorary Doctor of Divinity.