K. Reuben Mark
The Right Reverend K. Reuben Mark is the present (2015 onwards) Bishop in Karimnagar and the sixth in succession and occupies the Cathedra of the Bishop placed in Karimnagar's CSI-Wesley Cathedral. Reuben Mark is currently a Council Member for the period 2015–2018 at the fully-ecumenical United Theological College, Bangalore. During the XXXVIth session of Church of South India Synod, Reuben Mark has been elected as Deputy Moderator for the triennium 2020-2023 succeeding V. Prasada Rao.
The Right Reverend K. Reuben Mark, CSI Ayyagaru | |
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| Bishop – in – Karimnagar and Deputy Moderator of CSI Inter-diocesan Office - in - Chennai | |
Bishop Reuben Mark at the Protestant Regional Theologiate in Secunderabad on 1 January 2019 | |
| Church | Church of South India (A Uniting church comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Anglican, the Church of England, Lutheran churches, and missionary societies: SPG, WMMS, LMS, Basel Mission, and CMS in India ) |
| Diocese | Karimnagar |
| Elected | 2015 |
| Predecessor | Bishop P. Surya Prakash, CSI |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1988 by Bishop K. E. Swamidass, CSI at CSI-Wesley Cathedral, Karimnagar |
| Consecration | 4 May 2015 by The Most Reverend G. Dyvasirvadam, CSI, then Moderator and Principal consecrator and The Right Reverend Thomas K. Oommen, CSI then Deputy Moderator and co-consecrator |
| Rank | Bishop |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kantipudi Reuben Mark 29 March 1961 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Denomination | Christianity |
| Residence | Mukarampura, Karimnagar |
| Parents | Sri Shadrach |
| Occupation | Priesthood |
| Previous post(s) | Priest, Diocese of Karimnagar, Church of South India (1988–1995), Professor, Andhra Christian Theological College, Hyderabad (1995-2015) |
| Education | B. D. (Serampore), M. Th. (Serampore), Ph.D. (Higginbottom) |
| Alma mater | United Theological College, Bangalore (Karnataka), University of Copenhagen Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen (Denmark), Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) |
Before he assumed the ecclesiastical office of the Bishop, Reuben Mark was Professor in Homiletics from 1995 through 2015. Mark's professorship was at the Andhra Christian Theological College, affiliated to India's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) {a University under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956} with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.