Cherakarottu Korula Jacob was

Bishop of Travancore and Cochin The Madhya Kerala Diocese is one of the twenty-four dioceses of the Church of South India (CSI), a United Protestant denomination covering the central part of Kerala. When the Church of South India was formed on 27 September 1947, the diocese ...

in from 1945 to 1957. He was the 6th bishop of the diocese and the first native bishop and the first bishop of the Madhya Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India. Jacob was born in Pallom in 1886 to T Korula Ashan. He was educated at the

University of Madras The University of Madras is a public university, public State university (India), state university in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in India, incorporated by an ...

and joined the CMS College High School as teacher. Later he studied theology at the Cambridge Nicholson Institute.

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as an Anglican priest in 1914, he served in

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until 1919. For the next twenty years he was

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of the Cambridge Nicholson Institute at

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. He then went to

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for higher education and was appointed the

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. He was also served as the

of the Bishop's College, Calcutta. Jacob was consecrated a bishop on 6 May 1945 at St George's Cathedral, Madras; he was the first Indian to be elected to a diocesan See, and he was native to his own diocese. On 27 September 1947, he presided over the inaugural service of the

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, the successor to the Anglican Church in South India, after Indian independence. He was also the first moderator of the

. In acknowledgement of his contributions to the formation of the

, he was presented an honorary doctorate by the

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, in Canada. Because of his deep Bible knowledge, he used to be called the "Bible Dictionary". He retired from office in 1957 and died on 17 December 1957. He is buried at the CSI Holy Trinity Cathedral,

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University of Madras alumni Anglican archdeacons in India Anglican bishops of Travancore and Cochin 1886 births 1957 deaths {{India-Anglican-bishop-stub