Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah [SEP] position held
Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah
Bishop Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (17 August 1874 – 1 January 1945) (also transliterated as Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah) was an Indian evangelist and the first Indian bishop in the churches of the Anglican Communion, serving as the first bishop of the diocese of Dornakal. A pioneer of Christian ecumenism in India, Azariah had a complex relationship with Mahatma Gandhi, who at least once called him postcolonial Indians' "Enemy Number One."
Early and Family Life.
Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah was born in 1874 in
of the University of Madras and the Madras Presidency College
- C.S.I. Nathaniel Memorial Church, Sankagiri, Salem
Cathedral and other major CSI churches in the diocese Others.
- CSI Brough Memorial Church, Erode
The construction of the church started in 1930 and it was completed in the year 1933 by Antony Watson Brough. The church was dedicated in 1933 by Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah. Built with lime mortar with egg and the stones were brought from Karur, it is constructed in the Indo-Saracenic style architecture.
- CSI