He was a rector of
Cathedral Church in
Okinawa, St Peter’s and
St Paul’s Church in
Mihara city in Okinawa,
and also chair of the
Standing Committee of
the Diocese of Okinawa.
He is the third bishop of
the Diocese after it
officially became a part of
Nippon Sei Ko Kai (the
Anglican Episcopal Church in Japan) in 1972.
http://www.nskk.org/
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Prince Singh.
Born in Chenaii, Tamil Nadu India. He graduated
from Madras Christian College, Tambaram, and
Union Biblical Seminary both in India. He was
ordained a priest in the Church of South India
(Anglican Communion) in 1990 and served
congregations in rural South India. Bishop Singh
holds post graduate degrees in Practical Theology
from Union Theological Seminary, Virginia (1994),
Church and Society from Princeton Seminary
(1995), and a Ph.D. from Drew University (2005)
in Religion and Society. He served in the Diocese of Newark as Associate
Rector at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, New Jersey from
1997-2000, and as Rector of St. Alban's in Oakland, New Jersey from 2000
until his election as Bishop of the Diocese of Rochester in 2008.
In the Diocese of Newark, Bishop Singh co-founded the Dalit Solidarity
Forum in the United States of America, he served on the Board of Creative
Living Counselling Centre, he was Chair the Oakland Franklin Lakes
Interfaith Council, and he served as an Adjunct faculty member at Drew
Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey. As Bishop of the Diocese of
Rochester, Bishop Singh is a member of the Board of Trustees of Colgate
Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, and a member of the Board
of Directors of Episcopal Senior Life Communities, in Rochester. He also
serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges in Geneva, New York.
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