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词条 Pushpa Lalitha
释义

  1. Early years

     Ministerial Formation 

  2. Ordination and pastorship

  3. Bishopric

  4. Further reading

  5. References

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}{{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}}{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| type = Bishop
| name = Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha
| title = Bishop - in - Nandyal
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| church = Church of South India
| archdiocese =
| diocese = Nandyal Diocese
| see = Nandyal
| term = 2013–present
| predecessor = P. J. Lawrence
| successor = Incumbent
| ordination = 1984
| ordinated_by =
| consecration = 29th September 2013
| consecrated_by = G. Devakadasham, Moderator and Principal Consecrator,
and Govada Dyvasirvadam, Deputy Moderator and Co-consecrator
| rank =Bishop
| birth_date = 1956
| birth_place = Diguvappad, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh
| death_date =
| death_place =
| previous_post =
}}{{Portal|Anglicanism}}The Right Reverend Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha is the Bishop of the Nandyal Diocese of the Church of South India. She is the first woman to become a Bishop in Church of South India.[1]

The Church of South India, part of the Anglican Communion,[2] created history when then Moderator, G. Devakadasham and Deputy Moderator G. Dyvasirvadam consecrated Pushpa Lalitha in 2013[3] making a woman Reverend become a Bishop. Pushpa Lalitha is a member of the CSI Order of Sisters headquartered in Bangalore and although she is the first woman to be consecrated as Bishop of Church of South India, the first woman to be consecrated Bishop in any church in Asia was A. Katakshamma[4] of the Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bhadrachalam. The first ordained woman priest in India is Sr. Elizabeth Paul, also of the CSI Order of Sisters.

Early years

Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha was born to a family of agriculturists in Diguvappad village in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. She acknowledges the influence of the Protestant and Catholic Missionaries who lead a selfless life and she very much wanted to lead such a life and became a member of the CSI Order of Sisters.[5]

Ministerial Formation

Pushpa Lalitha had her ministerial formation[1] at the Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad affiliated to the nation's first[6] University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) where she studied during the period of the Old Testament Scholars, Victor Premasagar,[7] CSI and G. Babu Rao,[7] CBCNC.

She later had an exposure at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham and at the United Church of Jamaica and Cayman Islands,[5] Kingston, Jamaica.[8]

Ordination and pastorship

Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha was ordained as a priest on 1984. She held the post of Director of Vishranthi Nilayam, the headquarters of the CSI Order of Sisters on Infantry road in Bangalore and the administrative head of the Church of South India women fellowship. She has also served as Chairperson of the Deanery committee.

Bishopric

Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha was appointed as the Bishop of Nandyal Diocese on 25 September 2013. She was consecrated as Bishop on 29 September 2013 at the CSI-Holy Cross Cathedral in Nandyal by Moderator G. Devakadasham and Deputy Moderator G. Dyvasirvadam.[9]

{{S-start}}{{S-rel}}{{Succession box| before=P. J. Lawrence
2006-2012| title=Bishop - in - Nandyal | after=Incumbent| years=2013-}}{{S-end}}

Further reading

  • {{cite journal

| author=Grace Davie
| title=Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox
| year=2015
| volume=
| issue=Second
| isbn=978-1-4051-3595-5
| url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=tqObBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA127&dq=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&f=false
}}
  • {{cite journal

| author=Colin Buchanan
| title=Historical Dictionary of Anglicanis
| year=2015
| volume=
| issue=Second
| isbn=978-1-4422-5016-1
| url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mFCbCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA548&dq=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&f=false
}}
  • {{cite journal

| author=Constance M. Millington
| title=An Ecumenical Venture: The History of Nandyal Diocese in Andhra Pradesh, 1947-1990
| year=1993
| volume=
| issue=
| isbn=
| url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ue_jAAAAMAAJ&q=eggoni+pushpalalitha&dq=eggoni+pushpalalitha&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk69GanMzTAhUDgI8KHfvyBwQQ6AEIRTAG
}}

References

1. ^{{cite news|title=CSI appoints woman as a bishop |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/csi-appoints-woman-as-bishop/article5176691.ece|accessdate=|newspaper=The Hindu|date =28 September 2013}}
2. ^Colin Buchanan, Historical Dictionary of Anglicanism, Rowman and Littlefield, London, 2015, p.548.[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=mFCbCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA548&dq=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&pg=PR15#v=onepage&q=nandyal&f=false]
3. ^Grace Davie, Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox, Blackwell Publishers, Sussex, 2015, p.127.[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=tqObBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA127&dq=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=eggoni%20pushpalalitha&f=false]
4. ^Nikhila Henry, India gets first woman Anglican bishop from Andhra.
5. ^Diocese of Oxford, God in the Life of Bishop of Nandyal
6. ^UNESCO Structures of University Education in India, 1952
7. ^H. S. Wilson (Edited), The Church on the Move: Essays in honour of Victor Premasagar, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1988, p.vi. [https://books.google.co.in/books?ei=iR-HVZnHN43GuAT82IDwBQ&id=S-wrAAAAMAAJ&dq=victor+premasagar+g.babu+rao&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=babu+rao]
8. ^Theologue, United Theological College of the West Indies, 1984, p.29.[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=l9BYAAAAMAAJ&q=eggoni+pushpalalitha&dq=eggoni+pushpalalitha&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk69GanMzTAhUDgI8KHfvyBwQQ6AEINTAD]
9. ^{{cite news|title=India gets first woman Anglican bishop from Andhra |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-28/hyderabad/42480633_1_first-woman-bishop-anglican-csi-synod|accessdate=|newspaper=The Times of India|date =28 September 2013}}
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7 : 1956 births|Living people|People from Rayalaseema|People from Kurnool district|Anglican Bishops of Nandyal|Female Anglican bishops|CSI Order of Sisters

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