Norman C. Sargant

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Norman C. Sargant
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
Church Christian
Diocese Diocese of Mysore)
See Church of South India
In office 1951-1970[1]
Predecessor Premaka Gurushantha
Successor Kenneth E. Gill
Orders
Consecration 12 April 1951 at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore[2]
Personal details
Born 1909[3]
Died 1982

Norman C. Sargant (1909-1982) was the second[1][4] Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore. Norman was the brother of Thomas Sargant.

Norman studied Bachelor of Arts[2] who came to India as a Methodist Missionary in 1931[3] and was a member of the Church History Association of India.[5]

Writings

Norman C. Sargant wrote the following books,

  • Date unknown, History of the Protestant Church (in Karnataka),[6]
  • Date unknown, My Dear Boy: Letters from Norman Thomas Carr Sargant to His Son Norman Carr Sargant : September 1939-January 1946,[7]
  • Date unknown, The Life Story of an Indian Minister: The Rev. Henry Premaka, 1850-1922,[8]
  • 1940, The Dispersion of the Tamil Church,[9]
  • 1944, A Letter from Mysore,[10]
  • 1952, W. E. Tomlinson: a memoir and some papers,[11]
  • 1963, The Lingayats: The Vira-Saiva Religion’’,[12]
  • 1963, A charge delivered by Norman Carr Sargant, second bishop in Mysore, at a meeting of the presbyters and deacons attending the ninthe Diocesan Council at Hubli, November 14th 1963,[13]
  • 1976, India : A Christian View,[14]
  • 1985, India, My Appointed Place": An Account of Mary Carpenter's Four Journeys to India,[15]
  • 1987, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920-1950. This book is preserved at the National Library, Government of India, New Delhi,[16][17]
  • 1987, Mary Carpenter in India,[18]

Records

The correspondence of Sargant are kept at two locations, one at the Cadbury Research Library Special Collections at the University of Birmingham[19] and the other at Norman Carr Collection at Information Services, Orchard Learning Resources Centre, University of Birmingham.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 K. M. George, Church of South India: life in union, 1947–1997, Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999, pp.36-41. [1]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rajaiah David Paul, ‘’The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India’’, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1958, p.74. [2]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sargant, Norman Carr Collection, Reference code(s): GB 0151 DA36, held at Birmingham - University of, Information Services, Orchard Learning Resources Centre [3]
  4. ↑ Bernard Thorogood, Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context : the Story of the London Missionary Society, 1945-1977, WCC, p. 97. [4]
  5. ↑ Indian Church History Review, Volume 17, 1983, 83
  6. ↑ Norman Sargant, History of the Protestant Church (in Karnataka), Cited by Godwin Shiri in Wholeness in Christ: the legacy of the Basel Mission in India, Karnataka Theological College and Research Institute, Mangalore, 1985, p.76. [5]
  7. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, My Dear Boy: Letters from Norman Thomas Carr Sargant to His Son Norman Carr Sargant : September 1939-January 1946. [6]
  8. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, The Life Story of an Indian Minister: The Rev. Henry Premaka, 1850-1922, C.L.S. Press, Madras. [7]
  9. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, The Dispersion of the Tamil Church, S.P.C.K, 1940. [8]
  10. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, A Letter from Mysore, Printed at the Wesley Press and Publishing House, 1944. [9]
  11. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, Arthur Marcus Ward, William Ernest Tomlinson, W. E. Tomlinson: a memoir and some papers, Christian Literature Society for India, Madras, 1952. [10]
  12. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, 'The Lingayats: The Vira-Saiva Religion’’, Christian Institute . for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore, 1963. [11]
  13. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, A charge delivered by Norman Carr Sargant, second bishop in Mysore, at a meeting of the presbyters and deacons attending the ninthe Diocesan Council at Hubli, November 14th 1963, 1963. [12]
  14. ↑ Norman C. Sargant, ‘’India: A Christian View’’ in The Labour Monthly, Volume 58, published by Rajani Palme Dutt, Labour Publishing Company, 1976, p.545. [13]
  15. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, India, My Appointed Place: An Account of Mary Carpenter's Four Journeys to India, 1985. [14]
  16. ↑ Norman Sargant, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920-1950, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1987. [15]
  17. ↑ Norman Sargant, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920-1950, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1987. [16]
  18. ↑ Norman Carr Sargant, Mary Carpenter in India, 1987
  19. ↑ XDA 36 Sargant Collection at the Cadbury Research Library Special Collections at the University of Birmingham[17]


Religious titles
Preceded by Bishop - in - Diocese of Mysore
Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
1951-1970		 Succeeded by
Kenneth E. Gill
1972-1980
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