page_title: Peter Sugandhar
section_title: CSI Synod: 2000-2008
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Sugandhar / CSI Synod: 2000-2008
caption_attribution_description: Church of South India Dioceses
context_page_description: B. P. Sugandhar was the fifth successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop - in - Medak of the Church of South India whose bishopric lasted for more than a decade and half from 1993 through 2009 coinciding with the archbishoprics of Samineni Arulappa and Marampudi Joji of the Archdiocese of Hyderabad.
  It was in 1992 that the Old Testament Scholar, Bishop P. Victor Premasagar vacated the Cathedra on attaining superannuation, following which Sugandhar contested the vacant bishopric and was appointed and consecrated in September 1993 by the Church of South India Synod led by its Moderator Vasanth P. Dandin, and its Deputy Moderator Jason S. Dharmaraj, making Sugandhar assume the Cathedra in CSI-Medak Cathedral in Medak.
context_section_description: Sugandhar first began attending the Synods of the Church of South India when he went along with his Bishop Victor Premasagar and represented the Medak Diocesan Council at the Synods.  However, after assuming the bishopric, Sugandhar began participating with full leadership beginning with the Trichy Synod held in 1994 and from that point of time onwards, he had attended two sessions in 1996 in Coimbatore and in 1998 in Madanapalle but first contested the Synod only in 2000.
caption: Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Church of South India Synod - Sugandhar led the Synod for nearly a decade from 2000-2008.
exif: {}