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'''Cherakarottu Korula Jacob''' was [[Anglican Bishop of Travancore and Cochin|Bishop of Travancore and Cochin]] 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|Madhya Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India]].<ref>[http://www.kerkrecht.nl/main.asp?pagetype=onderdeel&item=242&subitem=5941&page= Kerkrecht] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415021734/http://www.kerkrecht.nl/main.asp?pagetype=onderdeel&item=242&subitem=5941&page= |date=15 April 2012 }}</ref>

Jacob was born in [[Pallom]] in 1886 to T Korula Ashan. He was educated at the [[University of Madras]] and joined the CMS College High School as teacher. Later he studied theology at the Cambridge Nicholson Institute. [[Ordained]] as an Anglican priest in 1914, he served in [[Melukavu]] until 1919. For the next twenty years he was [[Principal (academia)|Principal]] of the Cambridge Nicholson Institute at [[Kottayam]]. He then went to [[Oxford]] for higher education and was appointed the [[Archdeacon]] of [[Mavelikkara]]. He was also served as the [[Principal (academia)|Principal]] of the [[Bishop's College, Calcutta]].<ref>[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]] Oxford, [[OUP]], 1948</ref>

Jacob was consecrated a bishop on 6 May 1945 at [[St. George's Cathedral, Chennai|St&nbsp;George's Cathedral, Madras]]; he was the first Indian to be elected to a diocesan See, and he was native to his own diocese.<ref>{{Church Times | title = Elephants for the bishop | archive = 1945_06_08_323 | issue = 4298 | date = 8 June 1945 | page = 323 | accessed = 20 September 2019 }}</ref> On 27 September 1947, he presided over the inaugural service of the [[Church of South India]], the successor to the Anglican Church in South India, after Indian independence.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Order of Service for the Inauguration of Church Union in South India (1947) |website=anglicanhistory.org |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/india/inauguration1947.html}}</ref> He was also the first moderator of the [[Church of South India]]. In acknowledgement of his contributions to the formation of the [[Church of South India]], he was presented an honorary doctorate by the [[Wycliffe College, Toronto|Wycliffe College]], 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 [[Church of South India|CSI]] Holy Trinity Cathedral, [[Kottayam]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Former Bishops – CSI Madhya Kerala Diocese |url=http://csimkd.net/former-bishops/}}</ref>

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