[1] After initial studies in English literature[1] at the CSI-Noble College, Machilipatnam and teaching in Mulug, Devamani was sent for spiritual studies by Bishop P. Solomon[1] to study at the Anglican Bishop's College, Kolkata affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University), India's first[4] {a university under Section 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956}[5] with degree-granting authority validated by a Danish Charter and ratified by the Government of West Bengal.
From 1972 to 1975, Devamani was in Kolkata studying at the Bishop's College for the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity under faculty including Yisu Das Tiwari[6] and others after which the Senate of Serampore College (University) under the Registrarship of Chetti Devasahayam awarded him a graduate degree.
A. Carpenter resulting in a dissertation which Devamani later published it in 1990 under the title The Religion of Ramanuja: A Christian Appraisal.
[9] While in Chicago, Devamani also pastored rural congregations of Odell and Emington under the United Church of Christ.
In 2006 when Bishop A. Rajarathnam of the adjoining Diocese of Dornakal retired on attaining superannuation, Devamani contested for the bishopric and was declared elected by then Moderator of the Church of South India Synod, B. P. Sugandhar who principally consecrated him in the presence of the Deputy Moderator, S. Vasantha Kumar at the CSI-Epiphany Cathedral in Dornakal.