Pereji Solomon
Bishop P. Solomon (3 June 1910 – 21 August 2002) was the third Bishop-in-Dornakal Diocese of the Church of South India who succeeded A. B. Elliott. Ever since Solomon chose the vocation of Priesthood, he maintained celibacy and served the Church throughout his life.
Pereji Solomon | |
|---|---|
| Bishop – in – Dornakal (1956-1979) | |
| Church | Christian |
| Diocese | Dornakal |
| See | Church of South India |
| In office | 1956[1]-1979[2] |
| Predecessor | A. B. Elliott |
| Successor | G. S. Luke |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1947, Medak by Frank Whittaker, Bishop-in-Medak |
| Consecration | 27 November[2] 1956[3] by H. Sumitra, Moderator, Church of South India Synod and J. E. L. Newbigin, Deputy Moderator, Church of South India Synod[3] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 June 1910[2] Ganneruvaram,[2] Karimnagar District |
| Died | 21 August 2002 (aged 92)[2] Paloncha[2] |
| Buried | Epiphany Cathedral Compound, Dornakal |
| Previous post(s) | Pastor, Diocese of Dornakal(1940-1956) Missionary, British Isles[1](1956) |
Solomon had his spiritual formation at the United Theological College, Bangalore where he studied from 1936 to 1940[4] for the graduate course leading to Bachelor of Divinity awarded by the Senate of Serampore College (University), India's first[5] {a university under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}[6] with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.
After Solomon's return from Bangalore, he was ordained in 1947[7] by Frank Whittaker in Medak. In 1956 Solomon was a missionary in Swindon[2] and to the British Isles.[1]
Rajaiah David Paul writes that while Solomon out of the country, he was elected[7] bishop. Solomon was consecrated on 27 November 1956[2] as the third Bishop-in-Dornakal by H. Sumitra, Moderator and J. E. L. Newbigin, Deputy Moderator of the Church of South India Synod at the CSI-Epiphany Cathedral in Dornakal.[3] Solomon led the bishopric of Dornakal from 1956 to 1979. The Diocese of Dornakal was split in 1978, resulting in the creation of the Diocese of Karimnagar. M. Edwin Rao, who compiled a centennial edition of the Diocese of Dornakal, writes that Solomon attended ecclesiastical conclaves the world over,[2]
- 1956, World Methodist Conference, United States of America,
- 1956, Audience with Eisenhower along with other delegates attending World Methodist Conference,
- 1965, the Second Vatican Council convened by Pope Paul VI and also had an audience with the in Rome[2] and again in Bombay,
- 1968,[2] the tenth Lambeth Conference[8] presided by Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1961, World Methodist Conference, Oslo,
- 1965, Guest of honour of Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church, Damascus,
- 1967, British Methodist Missionary Society consultation, Manchester
- 1967, Congress on Evangelism by Billy Graham,
- 1967, East Asia Christian Council, Bangkok,
- 1968, the fourth assembly[9] of the World Council of Churches held at Uppsala,
- 1969, Consultation on Church Union in Kenya-East Africa,
- 1969, Audience with the Emperor of Ethiopia at Addis Ababa,
- 1969, Audience with the Patriarch of Coptic Church in Addis Ababa,
References
- The Living Church, Volume 132, Morehouse-Gorham Company, 1956, p.20.
- M. Edwin Rao (Compiled), Prophet Azariah and the Blessed Dornakal: A centenary revisit 1912-2012, Dornakal Diocese, Dornakal, 2012, pp.82-84
- K. M. George, Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997, Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp.20-23.
- K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), Directory of the United Theological College 1910-1997, Bangalore, 1997. p.19
- Sankar Ray, The Hindu (Business Line), 11 April 2008 Almost a century later, the charter was endorsed officially under the Bengal Govt Act IV of 1918. Internet, accessed 30 November 2008.
- The Senate of Serampore College (University) is a University within the meaning of Section 2 (f) of the UGC Act, 1956 under which a University means a University established or incorporated by or under a Central Act, a Provincial Act or a State Act, and includes any such institution as may, in consultation with the University concerned, be recoginsed by the Commission in accordance with the regulations made in this behalf under this Act. The UGC took the opinion that the Senate fell under the purview of Section 2 (f) of the said Act since The Serampore College Act, 1918 was passed by the Government of West Bengal.
- Rajaiah David Paul, The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1958, pp.264, 276.
- Resolutions and reports of the Lambeth Conference (1968), SPCK, 1968, p.151.
- The Uppsala report 1968: official report of the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Uppsala July 4–20, 1968, World Council of Churches, 1968, pp.107 and 437.
Further reading
- Anantha Sudhaker Bobbili (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.