Norman C. Sargant

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 C. Sargant
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
ChurchChristian
DioceseDiocese of Mysore
SeeChurch of South India
In office1951-1970[1]
PredecessorPremaka Gurushantha
SuccessorKenneth E. Gill
Orders
Consecration12 April 1951 at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore[2]
Personal details
Born1909[3]
Died1982

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]

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References
  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.
  2. Rajaiah David Paul, ‘’The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India’’, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1958, p.74.
  3. Sargant, Norman Carr Collection, Reference code(s): GB 0151 DA36, held at Birmingham - University of, Information Services, Orchard Learning Resources Centre
  4. Bernard Thorogood, Gales of Change: Responding to a Shifting Missionary Context : the Story of the London Missionary Society, 1945-1977, WCC, p. 97.
  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.
  7. Norman Carr Sargant, My Dear Boy: Letters from Norman Thomas Carr Sargant to His Son Norman Carr Sargant : September 1939-January 1946.
  8. Norman Carr Sargant, The Life Story of an Indian Minister: The Rev. Henry Premaka, 1850-1922, C.L.S. Press, Madras.
  9. Norman Carr Sargant, The Dispersion of the Tamil Church, S.P.C.K, 1940.
  10. Norman Carr Sargant, A Letter from Mysore, Printed at the Wesley Press and Publishing House, 1944.
  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.
  12. Norman Carr Sargant, 'The Lingayats: The Vira-Saiva Religion’’, Christian Institute . for the Study of Religion and Society, Bangalore, 1963.
  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.
  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.
  15. Norman Carr Sargant, India, My Appointed Place: An Account of Mary Carpenter's Four Journeys to India, 1985.
  16. Norman Sargant, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920-1950, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1987.
  17. Norman Sargant, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920-1950, Christian Literature Society, Madras, 1987.
  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
Religious titles
Preceded by
Premaka Gurushantha
1947-1950		 Bishop - in -
CSI-Diocese of Mysore
1951-1970		 Succeeded by
Kenneth E. Gill
1972-1980
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