# K. C. Pillai

> Karnam Chengalvaraya Pillai (1900-1970) was a bishop, Antiochean Succession, Chennai (Madras), India. He spent the last twenty years of his life in the United States on a special mission to acquaint Christians with the orientalisms of the Bible. He wrote books and worked with western Christians to help clarify what he believed were difficult Scriptural passages through an understanding of the eastern manners and customs. During his time in the United States, he became associated with Victor Paul Wierwille, the founding president of The Way International and according to the book Born Again to Serve by the American Christian Press, Pillai and Wierwille worked through every orientalism in the Bible from Genesis through Revelation over a six-week period in 1953.

*Indian priest*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** India
- **Born:** 1901
- **Died:** 1971-11-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Karnam Chengalvaraya Pillai (1900-1970) was a bishop, Antiochean Succession, Chennai (Madras), India. He spent the last twenty years of his life in the United States on a special mission to acquaint Christians with the orientalisms of the Bible. He wrote books and worked with western Christians to help clarify what he believed were difficult Scriptural passages through an understanding of the eastern manners and customs. During his time in the United States, he became associated with Victor Paul Wierwille, the founding president of The Way International and according to the book Born Again to Serve by the American Christian Press, Pillai and Wierwille worked through every orientalism in the Bible from Genesis through Revelation over a six-week period in 1953.

## Fame
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## Sources
- [K. C. Pillai (bishop)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._C._Pillai_(bishop))
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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6323230)

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