page_title: John Sadananda
section_title: Honorary commitments
hierarchical_section_title: John Sadananda / Honorary commitments
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of Senate of Serampore College (University) in West Bengal
context_page_description: Bishop Emeritus John S. Sadananda was the Master of Senate of Serampore College, the nation's first University {a University under Section 2 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956} with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.
  Sadananda was appointed as the Master of the University in 2010. As an academic, Sadananda had been a Senator of the University from 1993 onwards since the time he was appointed as Principal of the Karnataka Theological College which has been an affiliated institution of the University. From 2006 to 2011, Sadananda had been President of the University.
  In ecclesiastical matters, Sadananda was the fifth Bishop in Karnataka Southern Diocese of the Church of South India occupying the Cathedra placed in CSI-Shanthi Cathedral, Mangalore from 2009 to 2013.
caption: Senate of Serampore College (University), Serampore where Sadananda has associated himself for the cause of Spiritual formation for nearly twenty five years.
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