Statement on Church Union Drawn Up at Tranquebar, 1–2 May 1919
The unofficial statement, often called the Tranquebar Manifesto, in which Indian pastors of the Anglican and South India United Churches proposed to unite on the basis of Scripture, the creeds, the two sacraments and the historic episcopate.
The statement came from a conference of Tamil pastors held at Tranquebar under the presidency of V. S. Azariah, the Anglican bishop of Dornakal. Its signers spoke as individuals and said that they did not commit their churches. They called the divisions of the Indian churches something imposed from outside, and asked for one church that would keep congregational, presbyterian and episcopal elements together.
The compilation of 1921 that prints it adds notes on what followed, and explains that the South India United Church had been formed in 1908 from congregations of Congregational, Scottish Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed missions. See the Church of South India Unites Four Traditions.
Cited in
- 27 September 1947, firm date