Convinced that Indians themselves should carry the gospel, Azariah helped found indigenous mission societies and, on the last day of 1912, was consecrated the first Indian bishop in the Anglican Communion, at Dornakal. His life answered the charge that Christianity in India was merely a foreign import.
His profile in Missions in India →Susan Harper's In the Shadow of the Mahatma and church records — modern works cited only.
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