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Oct 14, 1927 Medak, Andhra Pradesh, India Died on 01 Dec 2005 (aged 78)
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About Victor Premasagar
- Victor Premasagar (1927 in Medak – 2005 in Guntur) was the fourth successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop in Medak.
- He was an Indian churchman and Old Testament scholar with major contribution to the Old Testament and to the field of Theology.
- Premasagar's articles have appeared in the Expository Times (1966), the Vetus Testamentum (1966), the International Review of Mission (1972), the Indian Journal of Theology (1974), and cited in major works relating to the theme of Promise in the Bible and critical works on Psalms LXXX and the Hebrew word HOQ in the Tanakh. Premasagar was a pastor hailing from the Church of South India who tended rural congregations in the Diocese of Medak in north Telangana until 1961 when he became a seminary teacher at Dornakal and then moving out to Rajahmundry and later Secunderabad in 1972 and taught Old Testament.
- In 1980, the Church of South India recalled Premasagar to take up ministerial responsibilities and made him general secretary of the Church of South India Synod at its XVIIth session of the held at Tambaram.
- In 1983, Premasagar became a bishop and subsequently a moderator of the Church of South India Synod for two consecutive bienniums: 1988–1990 and 1990–1992.
