Diocese of Medak of the Church of South India information

Diocese of Medak
Diocese of Medak
Location
Country	India
Territory	Telangana
Deaneries	3 District Church Councils (DCC); (Godavari DCC, Medak DCC, and Town DCC)
Subdivisions	105 Pastorates
Headquarters	Medak
Statistics
Members	1/3rds of a million
Information
Denomination	Protestant
Rite	Church of South India (A Uniting church comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Congregational, Lutheran, Calvinist and Anglican missionary societies – SPG, WMMS, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, and the Church of England)
Established	3 October 1947
Cathedral	Medak Cathedral
Secular priests	200
Language	English, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Lambadi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
Calendar	Church of South India Liturgical calendar
Music	Contemporary worship music
Current leadership
Parent church	Church of South India Synod
Patriarch	A. Dharmaraj Rasalam; (Moderator)
The Right Reverend	Moderator's Commisary (K. Padma Rao)
Vicar General	The Reverend T. Bhaskar ; (Vice-Chairperson of the Diocese)
Archdeacons	The Rev. Velupula Samuel, CSI, Chairperson, Godavari District Church Council (GDCC),; The Rev. M. George Ebenezer Raju, CSI, Chairperson, Medak District Church Council (MDCC),; The Rev. John Jonathan, CSI, Chairperson, Town District Church Council (TDCC);
Website
	www.csimedakdiocese.org

The Diocese of Medak is one of the prominent Dioceses in the Church of South India, a Protestant Uniting Church with its headquarters in Medak comprising nearly 200^[3] Presbyters ministering to Telugu, Lambadi, Tamil,^[2] Kannada, Malayalam,^[5] Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu),^[6] English^[2] and other linguistic groups numbering nearly 1/3^rds^[1] of a million spread over 105^[1] pastorates and administered through 3 District Church Councils^[1] (DCC), namely, the Town DCC, the Medak DCC and the Godavari DCC geographically located in the erstwhile civil districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Medak, Rangareddy, Hyderabad and Mahboobnagar in Telangana.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 70 years of God's Faithfulness: CSI (Medak Diocese) UK Telugu Christians Souvenir commemorating the 70th year of the formation of the Church of South India, 2016.[1] Archived 27 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c P. Y. Luke, J. B. Carman, Village Christians and Hindu Culture, Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1968, pp.15, 17, 24.[2]
^ ^a ^b ^c Church of South India Synod - Medak Ministerial Details. [3]
^ ^a ^b ^c Georgette 2019 - Annual magazine of CSI-St. George's Girls' Grammar School
^ Immanuel CSI Malayalam Church, Hyderabad
^ Dinesh K. Agarwal, Great Struggle: Bishop's Story, Patridge publishing, New Delhi, 2016.

[UK_CSI-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 70 years of God's Faithfulness: CSI (Medak Diocese) UK Telugu Christians Souvenir commemorating the 70th year of the formation of the Church of South India, 2016.[1] Archived 27 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine

[Village-2] P. Y. Luke, J. B. Carman, Village Christians and Hindu Culture, Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1968, pp.15, 17, 24.[2]

[Synod-3] Church of South India Synod - Medak Ministerial Details. [3]

[SGGS-4] Georgette 2019 - Annual magazine of CSI-St. George's Girls' Grammar School

[5] Immanuel CSI Malayalam Church, Hyderabad

[6] Dinesh K. Agarwal, Great Struggle: Bishop's Story, Patridge publishing, New Delhi, 2016.

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