Premasagar's articles appeared in the Expository Times (1966),[1] the Vetus Testamentum (1966),[2] the International Review of Mission (1972),[3] and the Indian Journal of Theology (1974) and cited in major works relating to the theme of Promise[4][5] in the Bible and critical works on Psalms LXXX[6][7] and the Hebrew word HOQ[8][9] in the Tanakh.

Premasagar was a pastor hailing from the Church of South India who tended rural congregations in the Diocese of Medak in north Telangana until 1961 when he became a seminary teacher at Dornakal and then moving out to Rajahmundry and later Secunderabad in 1972 and taught Old Testament.

In 1983, Premasagar became a bishop and subsequently a moderator of the Church of South India Synod for two consecutive bienniums: 1988–1990 and 1990–1992.

[4] After Premasagar's ordination as presbyter, he began pastoring parishes in Siddipet, Mancherial, Soan, and Shankarampet.

Premasagar first taught at the Andhra Union Theological College (AUTC), Dornakal, between 1961 and 1964,[13] and his other colleagues included Eric J. Lott and later he left for specialized studies to England.

On invitation from Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, in the United States, he took sabbatical from ACTC to teach there for a year.

Premasagar used to teach Old Testament and Hebrew language at the Andhra Christian Theological College, first at Rajahmundry and then at Secunderabad and co-faculty included W. D. Coleman[15] and M.

[18] While continuing to serve at ACTC, he was elected in-absentia[13] as General secretary of the Church of South India Synod at its XVIIth session held at Tambaram in 1980.

During the XXth session of the Church of South India Synod held at Trivandrum in 1986, Premasagar was elected as the deputy moderator.

It was at this time that indigenous methods were devised and put into practice for raising funds from the local congregations for supporting church programmes which was met with widespread success.

As for the educational institutions in the Diocese of Medak, schools were made to adapt to modern trends to face the changing pattern.

He was later invited by Dr. K. Rajaratnam,[23] director of Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai to teach and guide doctoral students and was Professor Emeritus of Old Testament.

Some essays were written in his honour (festschrift) commemorating his shastipoorthi (completion of sixty years) and brought into a book edited by H. S. Wilson entitled The Church on the Move: Essays in honour of Victor Premasagar[18] which was reviewed in 1990 by George Peck in the International Review of Mission Research.