19 Facts About Victor Premasagar

Victor Premasagar was the fourth successor of Frank Whittaker as Bishop in Medak.

Victor Premasagar was an Indian churchman and Old Testament scholar who made major contributions to research on the Old Testament and to the field of theology.

Victor 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 Victor 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.

Victor Premasagar was born in Medak and was raised a Christian in what is the Church of South India.

Victor Premasagar completed his schooling from Wesley School in Secunderabad.

Victor Premasagar completed his college studies from the century-old Andhra-Christian College, Guntur.

Victor Premasagar was sent to Cambridge University where he specialized in the study of the Old Testament studying from 1964 to 1966 at Westminster College, Cambridge and was awarded the Cambridge Tripos.

In 1969, the Board of Governors of ACTC accorded Victor Premasagar study leave, which he used to go to St Andrews University, Scotland for further studies in the Old Testament.

Victor Premasagar studied in St Mary's College between 1969 and 1972 and was guided by William McKane and JD Martin.

Rev Victor Premasagar attended the eleventh and twelfth conferences in 1978 and 1988 respectively.

Victor Premasagar was a translator for the Bible Society of India in its Telugu Bible Common Language Translation Programme since the 1970s.

Victor Premasagar headed the Translations Committee of the Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary until the 1990s and then was followed by Rev G Babu Rao, his colleague while at ACTC.

Victor Premasagar was the president of the Bible Society of India headquartered in Bangalore from 1988 to 1994 and continued to be a member of the India Bible Society Trust Association for a long period.

Post-retirement, Victor Premasagar spent about a year at the Presbyterian Church of Wales as an invitee.

On his return to India, Victor Premasagar taught part-time at ACTC.

Victor Premasagar was later invited by Dr K Rajaratnam, director of Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai to teach and guide doctoral students and was Professor Emeritus of Old Testament.

In 2000, Victor Premasagar accepted an invitation to become principal of Bethel Bible College, Guntur, where he taught until his death at St Joseph's Hospital, Guntur, on 1 December 2005.

Wilson entitled The Church on the Move: Essays in honour of Victor Premasagar which was reviewed in 1990 by George Peck in the International Review of Mission Research.