Andhra Christian Theological College ACTC, Hyderabad

About Andhra Christian Theological College ACTC, Hyderabad

Andhra Christian Theological College is a seminary in Telangana which was founded in 1964.

The Council is the supreme body in the structure of the College. Incorporated by the Royal Charter, by the Danish King, Frederick, VI, and enlarged by the Andhra Christian Theological College of 1964 by the Government of Bengal, the Council continues to exercise its overall responsibilities for this unique institutions. It has a membership of seventeen members including the Master and Principal and has an ecumenical and representative character. It constantly seeks to win adequate support to the institution both as a teaching college and as a theological university. According to the Charter and Statutes of the College, the Council is vested with all powers, including that of management of the College. The council makes bye-laws for governing College administration.

As Governing Body of the College, it functions through two complementary but distinct forms: College as an academic institution, and College as a university. As an academic institution, the College has two different departments – The arts, Science and Commerce ASC Department, and Theology Department. The ASC Department is affiliated to the University of Calcutta. The College Faculty as per the provisions of the Andhra Christian Theological College administers the College, as an educational institution.

The other form of the College is the University form, which is administered by a widely representative body, the Senate, as per the provisions of the Andhra Christian Theological College.

We believe that the Triune God has offered the possibility of renewal of life and hope for the entire creation in and through Jesus Christ and that as an instrument of God, the Church is called to be involved in God’s mission of liberation, reconciliation, and community building among all peoples through varied forms of ministry.

Set in the midst of people of other faiths and ideologies as well as situations of life-negating forces, we are called upon to equip the whole people of God to respond to the contextual challenges critically and creatively by being faithful to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In light of this faith and self-understanding, we seek to equip ministers, leaders, scholars and the whole people of God to be committed to creative discernment of and active participation in God’s liberative mission in the world at large and in South Asia in particular by providing programs of theological study and ministerial formation at various levels through affiliated colleges and institutions.