Sarah Chakko
Sarah Chakko was born in Thrissur, Kerala, India on February 13th, 1905 and is the Teacher. At the age of 49, Sarah Chakko biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Chakko traveled extensively to the United States, to Europe and to the Middle East. In 1936, Chakko visited the United States and gave talks at churches with her missionary colleague, Florence Salzer. 1937, she was a delegate to the World Student Christian Federation meeting in San Francisco.
In 1943, Chakko was appointed professor at the Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow; she later become president of the school. In addition to her teaching activity, she took part in the World Student Christian Federation and became its chairman for India, Burma, and Sri Lanka. In 1947, she was a vice president of the World YWCA.
She was involved in the work of the World Council of Churches (WCC). She spoke at the first assembly of the WCC in 1948, in Amsterdam. She was elected as one of the WCC's presidents in August 1951 after the resignation of T. C. Chao. She was the first woman in the presidency of the council, and the first (and for several decades the only) ecumenical functionary in the Syriac Orthodox Church. But by her work and other engagement, she was more closely related to other denominations, especially the Presbyterians and the Methodists.