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Hospet Sumitra was the first Bishop in Rayalaseema of the Church of South India.After graduating from the Central College of Bangalore he studied theology at the United Theological College Bengaluru between 1910 to 1913 and was among its first students and studied under L. P. Larsen J. Mathers F. Kingsbury G. E. Phillips W. H. Thorp D. S. Herrick and others.Sumitra died on 19 January 1970 in Bellary Karnataka.