Samuel Kanaka Prasad

Bishop Emeritus T. S. Kanaka Prasad CSI
Bishop Emeritus–in–Medak
Native name	మహ గనుడు శామ్యూల్ కనక ప్రసాద్ అయ్యాగారు
Church	Protestant Church of South India (comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Congregational and Anglican missionary societies - SPG, WMMS, LMS, CMS, and the Church of England)
Diocese	Diocese of Medak
See	Medak
Appointed	2009
Predecessor	B. P. Sugandhar, CSI
Successor	A. C. Solomon Raj, CSI
Orders
Ordination	by Bishop Victor Premasagar
Consecration	17 August 2009[1] by The Most Reverend J. W. Gladstone, Moderator and Principal Consecrator and The Right Reverend Christopher Asir, Deputy Moderator and Co-consecrator
Rank	Bishop
Personal details
Born	August 5, 1950 Telangana
Nationality	Indian
Denomination	Christianity
Residence	Secunderabad
Parents	Smt. Esther and Sri Thalari Samuel
Occupation	Priesthood
Previous post	Pastor

Bishop Emeritus T. S. Kanaka Prasad^[2] was the sixth successor of Frank Whittaker and seventh Bishop–in–Medak for the Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India (CSI) during the period 2009–2012.

Ministerial formation

During the Bishopric of H. D. L. Abraham, Kanaka Prasad took into Priesthood and studied spirituality in ecclesiastical institutions in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Andhra Pradesh

Ramayapatnam

Kanaka Prasad first underwent a year of propadeutic studies at the STBC-Ramayapatnam Baptist Theological College in Ramayapatnam in Nellore district during the Principalship of Louis F. Knoll^[3] where he was also taught by the Church historian R. Joseph.

Rajahmundry

After a year of study at Ramayapatnam, Kanaka Prasad moved to the Andhra Christian Theological College^[3] then located at Rajahmundry where he enrolled for spiritual studies during the Principalship of W. D. Coleman and studied under notable faculty including G. Devasahayam, W. P. Peery, M. Victor Paul, S. Joseph, Victor Premasagar, B. E. Devaraj, Eric J. Lott, Muriel Spurgeon Carder and Waldo Penner.^[3]

Telangana

Kanaka Prasad upgraded his academics at the Andhra Christian Theological College, which by then had moved to Hyderabad, ^[3] during the period of the Old Testament Scholars, Victor Premasagar, CSI and G. Babu Rao, CBCNC.

Bishopric

When B. P. Sugandhar retired from the Bishopric, T. S. Kanaka Prasad contested the vacant bishopric and was declared elected as the eight Bishop in Medak and consecrated on 17 August 2009 at the CSI-Medak Cathedral by then Moderator, The Most Reverend John Wilson Gladstone, the principal consecrator and The Right Reverend Christopher Asir, the co-consecrator in the presence of Bishops including S. J. Theodore, Bishop - in - Karimnagar, P. J. Lawrence Bishop - in - Nandyal and others as well as Clergy from the Diocese of Medak led by A. C. Solomon Raj, who succeeds Kanaka Prasad to the bishopric of Medak.

References

1. The Hindu, Andhra Pradesh, New bishop for Medak church
2. Ecclesia India blog
3. Talathoti Punnaiah, My Memoir, Ministry and Message: 60 years Life Experiences 1950-2010, Kakinada, 2010, p.27.

Further reading

• John Braisted Carman, Chilkuri Vasantha Rao (2014). "Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959-2009: Decline and Revival in Telangana". ISBN 978-0-8028-7163-3.
• Anantha Sudhaker Babbili (2000). "The Road from Poodur in Biographical Passages: Essays in Victorian and Modernist Biography : Honouring Mary M. Lago, University of Missouri, North America". ISBN 978-0-8262-1256-6.
• P. Y. Luke, J. B. Carman (1968). "Village Christians and Hindu Culture" (Second). ISBN 978-8-1845-8089-1.