[1] K. M. George who authored Church of South India: Life in Union, 1947–1997:[1] .....An able administrator, courageous and bold like Martin Luther and Abraham.N.
In 1956, Abraham was sent to the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham to lecture on Pastoria and Church Ethics for overseas missionaries.
He was then assigned a teaching and administrative roles at the Union Kanarese Seminary in Tumkur before being transferred back to Bellary.
After more than two years' of shepherding in Karnataka, Abraham was transferred and installed as Bishop - in - Medak on 3.2.1969[13] to set right some long-pending problems and to provide stable leadership.
[15] The Synod of the Church of South India again sought Abraham to set right disturbances at the Diocese of Krishna-Godavari as N. D. Ananda Rao Samuel, Bishop – in – Krishna Godavari had left the diocese in 1978[2] and sought refuge in Chennai, the Synodical Headquarters of the Church of South India.