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Senior Pastor. BA, BD, MTh, ThD (Harvard), DD (Queens, Canada) Rev. Duraisingh was ordained as a CSI presbyter in November 1965 in the Diocese of Dornakal, where he had been working as lay missionary of the Indian Missionary Society from Tirunelveli. He has been a professor of theology for over 30 years, first at the United Theological College, Bangalore and later at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. He was the General Secretary of the Council for World Mission (based in London, 1985-89). He served at the World Council of Churches, (based in Geneva, 1989-1997) first as the Director of World Mission and Evangelism, and later leading a worldwide study process on the "Gospel and Cultures", involving about 76 denominations around the world. At WCC, he was also the editor of the International Review of Mission. He has led bible studies, and retreats, and given addresses in several churches, including four devotional addresses in the Lambeth Conference of bishops of the Anglican..

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