Prabhakar Christopher Benjamin Balaram (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prabhakar Christopher Benjamin Balaram (1906-07-10 - 1968-01-17) was an Indian Bishop of The Methodist Church (USA), elected in 1965. Benjamin (as he was known) was born 10 July 1906 in Hyderabad, India. His ancestors had been of a priestly caste. However, he had a remarkably dedicated Christian mother. On one occasion, at a special service held soon after his birth, his mother (then only sixteen) made an offering. She put into an envelope all the money she had, writing on the outside: "I offer to the Lord these three rupees and my son." Balaram was an apt student. He studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh, with additional study in Denmark. He was chosen by the Methodist Episcopal Church as a Crusade Scholar, going onto further higher education in the U.S.A. Completing his B.A. degree, Phi Beta Kappa, he went on to complete his Master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh.