Norman C. Sargant

Norman Carr Sargant (3 January 1909 – 17 September 1982) was the second^[1][3] Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore. Norman was the brother of Thomas Sargant and William Sargant.

Norman C. Sargant
Bishop in Church of South India Diocese of Mysore
Church	Christian
Diocese	Diocese of Mysore
See	Church of South India
In office	1951–1970[1]
Predecessor	Premaka Gurushantha
Successor	Kenneth E. Gill
Orders
Consecration	12 April 1951 at St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore[2]
Personal details
Born	(1909-01-03)3 January 1909 Highgate, London, UK
Died	17 September 1982(1982-09-17) (aged 73) Bristol, UK

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Sargant was educated at The Leys School, Cambridge and Handsworth Theological College.^[4] He came to India as a Methodist Missionary in 1931^[5] and was a member of the Church History Association of India.^[6]

Writings

Norman C. Sargant wrote the following books,

• Date unknown, History of the Protestant Church (in Karnataka),^[7]
• Date unknown, My Dear Boy: Letters from Norman Thomas Carr Sargant to His Son Norman Carr Sargant : September 1939 – January 1946,^[8]
• Date unknown, The Life Story of an Indian Minister: The Rev. Henry Premaka, 1850–1922,^[9]
• 1940, The Dispersion of the Tamil Church,^[10]
• 1944, A Letter from Mysore,^[11]
• 1952, W. E. Tomlinson: a memoir and some papers,^[12]
• 1963, The Lingayats: The Vira-Saiva Religion'’,^[13]
• 1963, A charge delivered by Norman Carr Sargant, second bishop in Mysore, at a meeting of the presbyters and deacons attending the ninthe Diocesan Council at Hubli, November 14th 1963,^[14]
• 1976, India : A Christian View,^[15]
• 1985, India, My Appointed Place": An Account of Mary Carpenter's Four Journeys to India,^[16]
• 1987, From Missions to Church in Karnataka, 1920–1950. This book is preserved at the National Library, Government of India, New Delhi,^[17][18]
• 1987, Mary Carpenter in India,^[19]

Records

Papers of Norman Sargant are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham^[20]