G. Devasahayam[1] was the Indian President of the Protestant Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church Society and served during the periods 1956–1960[1] and again from 1963–1964.

Gorikapudi Devasahayam completed his graduate studies[3] at the Lutheran Theological College, Rajahmundry which at that time was directly affiliated to the Senate of Serampore College (University) and was assigned pastoral ministry.

Later, Devasahayam was appointed to teach at his alma mater, the Lutheran Theological College in Rajahmundry.

[citation needed] Devasahayam began teaching at the Lutheran Theological College in Rajahmundry from 1944 onwards until his elevation to the Presidency of the Lutheran Society in 1956 and again in 1963 when Devasahayam proceeded to Guntur to take up the responsibilities of the Society.

After his second stint as President ended in 1964,[5] Devasahayam returned to Rajahmundry and joined the faculty[6] of the newly formed Andhra Christian Theological College, a Protestant Regional Theologiate that included the Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, Lutherans, Methodists and Wesleyans.