Timeline
Three centuries, spaced as they happened.
One pixel is one span of years everywhere on the line below: the long silence before 1750, the crowded years of church union, the Bishops in their turn along the foot.
- 1700s1706
Ziegenbalg and Plütschau arrive at Tharangambadi
44 years pass
1750Christian Friedrich Schwartz arrives in India
12 years pass
1762Early prayer house and school established in Tiruchirappalli
- 1766
Christ Church consecrated in Tiruchirappalli
32 years pass
1798Schwartz enters eternal rest in Thanjavur
- 1800s1803
Kollidam Mission develops among village communities
14 years pass
1817Methodist missionary ministry begins at Nagapattinam
- 1826
Bishop Reginald Heber visits Tiruchirappalli and dies there
30 years pass
1856Methodist English-medium educational work begins at Nagapattinam
28 years pass
1884Wesleyan educational institution elevated to college status
14 years pass
1898Findlay College moves to Mannargudi
- 1900s
15 years pass
1913Abraham of Perungarunai Palayam receives baptism; people's movement grows
- 1919
Tharangambadi consultations on Church union
- 1925
Wesleyan Methodists join union discussions
- 1929
First draft scheme for Church union
- 1934–35
Reorganisation of Bishop Heber and Finlay educational institutions
13 years pass
1947Church of South India inaugurated; Tiruchirappalli–Thanjavur Diocese constituted
- 1947–1962
Episcopate of Rt. Rev. Edgar Bentley Thorp
17 years pass
1964–1982Episcopate of Rt. Rev. Solomon Duraisamy
18 years pass
1982–1998Episcopate of Rt. Rev. Dr. R. Paulraj
16 years pass
1998–2008Episcopate of Rt. Rev. Dr. James Srinivasan
- 2000s
10 years pass
2008–2018Episcopate of Rt. Rev. Dr. G. Paul Vasanthakumar
10 years pass
2018–2024Episcopate of Rt. Rev. Dr. T. Chandrasekaran
- 2025–present
Episcopate of Rt. Rev. Dr. S. Samuel Rajadurai