William Powlas Peery

During the third meeting of the Commission called for by the chairmen, Rajah B. Manikam and Hospet Sumitra that was convened by the Secretary Joshua Russell Chandran on 8 and 9 January 1963[10] at the United Theological College, Bangalore, Peery presented a comparative analysis of the constitutions of the Lutheran and the Church of South India Societies.

After the conclusion of the third Inter-Church Commission, Peery was made Convenor[10] of a Committee to come up with two drafts relating to the importance of episcopy, one on episcopal basis and the other partly-episcopal and partly non-episcopal.

In 1985, Peery along with his other colleagues, Joshua Russell Chandran, J. G. F. Collison, R. Richer and Christopher Doraisingh presented a paper entitled The Concept of Baptism in the Judeo-Christian Tradition.

Peery was a member of Council of India Mission[21] of the United Lutheran Church in America and held the position as office bearer as vice-president from 1953 to 1955[21] and as president from 1959 to 1963,[21] 1966–1969,[21] and from 1973 to 1975.

[21] In 1966,[22] the Lenoir–Rhyne University, Hickory, North Carolina conferred an honorary doctorate degree on Peery along with William Richard Fritz, Lestor C. Gifford, Franklin Clark Fry and Lewis Arthur Larson.