Govada Dyvasirvadam

Govada Dyvasirvadam (born 28 March 1951) is Bishop Emeritus of Krishna-Godavari Diocese of the Church of South India (which incorporates Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians).

Earlier, in 1998, Dyvasirvadam was elected as the General Secretary of the CSI, the youngest ever in the church's history.

Dyvasirvadam also pursued post-graduate studies in Noble College, Machilipatnam and was inspired by the then Bishop in Krishna-Godavari, N. D. Ananda Rao Samuel.

[5] In March 1978, Dyvasirvadam was ordained by Bishop Henry Lazarus as a deacon in the St. Andrew's Church in Machilipatnam.

Later, on invitation from the UTC, Bangalore, Dyvasirvadam went on study leave to serve as the Acting Registrar there.

[11] In 1992, Dyvasirvadam was recalled to the Church of South India Society by then Moderator, Bird Ryder Devapriam and was assigned the responsibility of overseeing pastoral concerns and became Director of the Pastoral Aid Department of the Church of South India Synod, Chennai.

The biennial Synod of the CSI elected Dyvasirvadam as its general secretary in 1998 in Arogyavaram in Chittoor District, succeeding George Koshy.

The Moderator of the CSI during that time was K. J. Samuel who principally consecrated him in the St. Andrew's Cathedral in Machilipatnam.