Bunyan Joseph

Bunyan Joseph began ministering since the 1920s in parts of Andhra Pradesh and in line with the Indian ethos, he made use of the Tanpura,[4] presenting the Gospel in Telugu language through a Hymn.

[16] The Old Testament Scholar, G. Babu Rao[17] reiterates the significance of the hymn in making a plain listener understand the message of the Gospel.

[3] He composed Hymns in Telugu language[13] and prior to becoming the Bishop, he was a Theological Tutor at the Divinity Schools in Dornakal and Giddalur[21] and had already become a Canon.

[2] A couple of days' prior to 27 September 1947,[22] the photographer Mark Kaufman of Life (magazine)[13] undertook a photo shoot of few personalities at Madras that included Joseph Bunyan.

The bishopric of Bunyan Joseph was short lived and he had to relinquish[25] the Cathedra on 2 August 1949[28] due to manifold reasons which is best known as the Nandyal Problem.

[25]After Bunyan Joseph returned to the fold of the CSI in 1952,[25] Arthur Michael Hollis, then Moderator, invited[25] him to be Assistant Bishop - in - Madras.

During the 1970s,[32] the Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore College,[32] then in Bangalore under the stewardship of Hunter P. Mabry, H. S. Wilson, and Zaihmingthanga planned to prepare a comprehensive bibliography of original Christian writings in India in vernacular languages.

The search for such vernacular Christian writings and compositions from institutions of the Catholic, Protestant, the New and Indigenous Churches and individual authors and composers gathered steam and finally concluded in the 1990s by which time Suneel Bhanu also assisted in the initiative.