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George Issac

Anglican bishop from Kerala, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ106987123
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George Issac (1944–2013) was an Anglican bishop: he was the fifth Bishop of North Kerala.

Issac was on 4 August 1944, at Fort Kochi, and educated at Leonard Theological Seminary in Jabalpur. He was ordained a deacon in 1968 and priest in 1969. He was appointed a chaplain at Christian Medical College Vellore . He then taught Chicago Theological Seminary until his episcopal appointment.

He died at CMC Vellore, where he was undergoing treatment for cancer.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “George Issac” is anglican bishop from Kerala, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through George, Issac and Anglican, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 2013, 1968, 1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944-01-01. For this dossier, George, Issac and Anglican is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106987123. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1944, 2013, 1968 and 1969.

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This entry incorporates text from George Issac” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.