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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific_prefix = Bishop
| name = C. D. Jathanna, CSI
| honorific_suffix = [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]] ''([[Honoris causa]])'' ([[Senate of Serampore College (University)|Serampore]]) {{small|(1993)}}
| title = Bishop in [[Karnataka Central Diocese]] of [[Church of South India]]
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| native_name_lang = Kannada
| church = [[Church of South India]]
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| diocese = [[Karnataka Central Diocese|Karnataka Central]]
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| term = 1983–1993<ref name="George"/>
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| predecessor = [[Kenneth E. Gill]], CSI
| successor = [[S. Vasantha Kumar]], CSI
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| other_post =Principal, [[Karnataka Theological College]], [[Mangalore]] ([[Karnataka]]){{small|(1967–1983)}}
| ordination = 1960<ref name="Sadananda"/>
| ordained_by = [[Basel Evangelical Mission]]
| consecration = 1983
| consecrated_by = [[I. Jesudasan]], CSI, [[Moderator of the General Assembly|Moderator]] and Sundar Clarke, CSI, Deputy Moderator, [[Church of South India Synod]]
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| birth_name = Constantine Devaprasad Jathanna
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|07|06}}<ref name="Sadananda">John S. Sadananda (Edited), ''Vision and Reality: Essays in honour of C. D. Jathanna'', KTCRI, Mangalore, 1989. [https://books.google.com/books?id=d1bjAAAAMAAJ]</ref>
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| birth_place = [[Kuthyar,Shirva, India|Shirva]],<ref name="Sadananda"/> ([[Madras Presidency]])
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|07|23|1928|07|06}}
| death_place =[[Mangalore]] ([[Karnataka]])
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| religion =[[Christian]]
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| parents = [[Smt.]] and [[Sri]] R. D. Jathanna
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| occupation = Priest
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*[[Councillor]], [[Mangalore City Corporation]],<ref name="Sadananda"/>
*Senat Member, [[University of Mangalore]],<ref name="Sadananda"/>
*President, [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]],
*Vice-President, [[Gandhi Peace Foundation]],<ref name="Sadananda"/>
*District and State Commissioner, [[Bharat Scouts and Guides]],<ref name="Sadananda"/>
*Member, Karnataka State Khadi And Village Industries Board,<ref name="Sadananda"/>
*Member, Karnataka State Adult Literacy Advisory Committee.<ref name="Sadananda"/>
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*[[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] ([[Madras University|Madras]])<ref name="Sadananda"/>
*[[Bachelor of Divinity|B.D.]] ([[Senate of Serampore College (University)|Serampore]])
*[[Master of Theology|Th.M.]] ([[Union Theological Seminary in Virginia|UTS]])
*[[Doctor of Theology|Dr.Theol.]] ([[University of Hamburg|Hamburg]])
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*[[United Theological College, Bangalore|United Theological College]], [[Bangalore]] ([[Karnataka]])
*[[Union Theological Seminary in Virginia|Union Theological Seminary]], [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] ([[United States]])
*[[University of Hamburg]], [[Hamburg]] ([[Germany]])
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'''C. D. Jathanna''' (Constantine Devaprasad Jathanna) (6 July 1928<ref name="Sadananda"/>{{snd}}23 July 1996<ref name="Hiwale"/>) was the fourth<ref name="George">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. [https://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=]</ref> Bishop in [[Karnataka Central Diocese]] headquartered in Bangalore with the ''Cathedra'' of the Bishop placed at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore.

==Studies==
===Graduate===
Jathanna studied [[Bachelor of Arts]] completing it by 1951.<ref name="Sadananda"/> For a year he worked as a Rationing Officer<ref name="Sadananda"/> with the [[Government of Tamil Nadu]] ''(erstwhile Government of Madras)'' before proceeding for spiritual studies at the [[United Theological College, Bangalore]] during the years 1952–1955<ref name="Hiwale">K. M. Hiwale (Compiled), ''Directory of the United Theological College 1910–1997'', Bangalore, 1997. p.25</ref> where he studied along with [[E. C. John]], [[Victor Premasagar]], [[N. D. Ananda Rao Samuel]] and others.

===Post-graduate===
In 1958<ref name="Sadananda"/> he pursued a postgraduate degree, [[Master of Theology]] at the [[Union Theological Seminary in Virginia]], [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] entitling his dissertation as ''[[Torah]] and [[Covenant (biblical)|Berith]] in the [[Pentateuch]]''.<ref>C. D. Jathanna, ''[[Torah]] and [[Covenant (biblical)|Berith]] in the [[Pentateuch]]'', M. Th. Thesis at the [[University of Virginia]], May 1958 available at the Archives in the library of [[Karnataka Theological College]], [[Mangalore]].</ref>

===Research studies===
In 1964 Jathanna got a scholarship of the [[:de:Missionsakademie an der Universit%C3%A4t Hamburg|Mission-Academy]] and went on study leave to the [[University of Hamburg]], [[Hamburg]] where he studied Old Testament at the Faculty of Evangelical Theology under [[Klaus Koch]], a direct student of [[Gerhard von Rad]].<ref name="Sadananda"/> In 1967 he was able to complete his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professors Hans Joachim Kraus<ref name="Covenant"/> and Marie-Louise Henry<ref name="Covenant"/> which was later published in 1969 under the title ''The Covenant and covenant making in Pentateuch''.<ref name="Covenant">Constantine Devaprasad Jathanna, ''The Covenant and covenant making in Pentateuch'', University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 1969. [https://books.google.com/books?id=sGnamgEACAAJ]</ref>

==Ecclesiastical career==
After completing studies in spirituality at the [[United Theological College, Bangalore]] in 1955, Jathanna was the secretary of the Student Christian Movement (Karnataka Unit) from 1955 through 1957.<ref name="Sadananda"/>

From 1959 onwards Jathanna was assigned a pastoral role and served as an evangelist before his ordination in 1960. From 1961 onwards, Jathanna taught at the B. E. M. Theological Seminary in Mangalore (now [[Karnataka Theological College]] serving also as vice-principal of the seminary.<ref name="Sadananda"/>

After completing doctoral studies in 1967,<ref name="Sadananda"/> he was appointed principal of the [[Karnataka Theological College]], [[Mangalore]]. Jathanna was a member of the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] and was a member of its research committee. In 1980, Jathanna visited the [[Andhra Christian Theological College]], [[Hyderabad]] along with [[Klaus Koch]] (who was visiting professor at the [[United Theological College, Bangalore]] as part of the research committee of the Senate.

==Recognition and honour==
[[John Sadananda]], a colleague of Jathanna at the [[Karnataka Theological College]], [[Mangalore]] edited a [[festschrift]] in honour of Jathanna which was entitled ''Vision and Reality: Essays in Honour of Constantine D. Jathanna'' published by the College in 1989.<ref name="Sadananda"/>

In 1993, the country's first university, the [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]] under the Registrarship of [[D. S. Satyaranjan]] conferred the honorary doctorate degree by [[honoris causa]] upon Jathanna.<ref name="Sadananda"/>

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{{Succession box
| before=[[Kenneth E. Gill]] 1972 - 1980| title=[[Karnataka Central Diocese|CSI Bishop - in - Karnataka Central Diocese]] [[Bangalore]]
|after=[[S. Vasantha Kumar]] 1997 - 2012
| years=1983 - 1993
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| before=[[Robert Scheuermeier]]<ref>Corinna Waltz, ''Honorary doctorate for Robert Scheuermeier'', 7.3.2013. [https://ems-online.org/en/news/article/07-03-2013-honorary-doctorate-for-robert-scheuermeier/]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 1965 - 1967| title=Principal, [[Karnataka Theological College]], [[Mangalore]]|after=[[C. L. Furtado]] 1983 - 1997<ref name="George"/>| years=1967 - 1983}}
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| before=''Post created''| title=Teacher - in - [[Old Testament]], [[Karnataka Theological College]], [[Mangalore]]|after=[[John Sadananda]] 1974 - 2009 [[D. Dhanaraj]] 1978 - 2015| years=1965 - 1983}}
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{{Succession box| before=[[Victor Premasagar]] 1977-1983
| title=President [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]]|after=[[Gnana Robinson]] 1986-1989
| years=1983-1986<ref>[http://www.senateofseramporecollege.edu.in/hall-of-fame/presidents-and-convenors-of-the-senate/ Presidents of the Senate]</ref>}}
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{{s-bef | before = [[Philipose Mar Chrysostom]], 
Dinesh Chandra Gorai, 
John E. Ghose 
1992}}
{{s-ttl | title = Doctor of Divinity Degree ([[honoris causa]]) [[Senate of Serampore College (University)]]
| years = 1993<ref>List of the Recipients of the Degree of Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa). [http://www.senateofseramporecollege.edu.in/hall-of-fame/doctor-of-divinity/]</ref>}}
{{s-aft | after =
T. V. Philip, 
B. V. Subbamma, 
T. Lunkim 
1994}}
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==References==
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