Frank Whittaker

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = Bishop

| name = Frank Whittaker, CSI

| honorific-suffix = Ayyagaru

| title = The Right Reverend

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| church = Church of South India (A Uniting church comprising Wesleyan Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian and Anglican missionary societies – ABCFM, SPG, WMMS, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, and the Church of England)

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| diocese = Medak

| see = Medak

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| term = 27 September 1947-March 1960Rajaiah David Paul, Ecumenism in action: a historical survey of the Church of South India, The Christian Literature Society, Chennai, 1972, p.86 [https://books.google.com/books?id=5cpWAAAAMAAJ&q=frank+whittaker+dornakal]

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| predecessor = Position created

| successor = Eber Priestley, CSI

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| ordination = Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society

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| consecration = 27 September 1947P. Surya Prakash, Diocese of Karimnagar 133 years and beyond - A story of transformation 1879-2012. [https://oimts.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2013-2-prakash.pdf]

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| rank = Priest

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| birth_name = Frank Whittaker

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1894|12|14}}

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| birth_place = England (United Kingdom)

| death_date ={{Death date and age|df=yes|1961|12|10|1894|12|14}}

| death_place =Dornakal (India)

|buried = CSI-Epiphany Cathedral Compound, Dornakal

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| nationality = English

| religion = Christianity

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| profession = Priesthood

| education =Master of ArtsSir Stanley Reed, The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who, Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1954, p.961.[https://books.google.com/books?id=fgQfAQAAMAAJ&q=frank+whittaker+dornakal] (Cantab.)

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• Oldham Grammar School, Oldham (England)
• St John's College, Cambridge (England)

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Frank Whittaker (born 1894;Rajaiah David Paul, The First Decade: An Account of the Church of South India, The Christian Literature Society, Chennai, 1958, p.264.[https://books.google.com/books?id=mNEsAAAAIAAJ&q=bishop+frank+whittaker+1894] died 1961The Church of South India, The Indian Missionary Society, Madras, and The National Missionary Society of India Jointly Celebrate the Birth Centenary of Bishop Azariah, the First Indian Bishop and Founder of The Indian Missionary Society and the National Missionary Society, on 5 and 6 October 1974 in Madras, 1974, p.56.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tCLkAAAAMAAJ&q=frank+whittaker+medak]) was the first Bishop - in - MedakK. M. George, Church of South India: Life in Union, 1947-1997, Jointly published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, New Delhi and Christava Sahitya Samithi, Tiruvalla, 1999. p. 272.[https://books.google.com/books?id=zmjZAAAAMAAJ] in the Church of South India, with his see in Medak in the Indian state of Hyderabad. Originally a Methodist, he became a bishop when several denominations in India merged to form the Church of South India on 27 September 1947.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63 |title=Church Union in South India|date=1 December 1947 |magazine=Life|page =63 (photo of Whittaker appears on p. 65)}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.life.com/image/50447639|title=Methodist Bishop Frank Whittaker attending {{as written|inau|geration [sic]}} of the Church of South India. |last=Mark Kauffman (photographer)|date=1 October 1947|magazine=Life|accessdate=28 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131090423if_/https://www.life.com/image/50447639 |archive-date=31 January 2010}}

Earlier, Whittaker had been the first head of the Normal Training College in Medak.{{cite book

| author=F. Golyer Sackett

| title=Vision and Venture : A Record of Fifty Years in Hyderabad 1879 - 1929

| year= 1930

| location= London

| publisher= The Cargate Press

| page =185

| url =https://archive.org/stream/MN41709ucmf_4/MN41709ucmf_4_djvu.txt

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Rajaiah David Paul writes that in March 1960, Whittaker vacated the cathedral, paving way for Eber Priestley who was appointed on 1 November 1960 the same year and moved to Dornakal to teach at the Andhra Union Theological College. However, nearly a year later, due to ill-health, Whittaker died in Dornakal on 10 December 1961.