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  Serampore College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since Serampore was then a Danish colony, King Frederick the Sixth, the King of Denmark, issued Serampore College its Royal Charter of Incorporation on February 23, 1827, in Copenhagen, Denmark (Charter, 1, Charter, 2, Charter, 3).
During the Centenary Year of the College in 1918, the Bengal Legislative Council passed the Serampore College Act (1918 Act, i, 1918 Act, ii, 1918 Act, iii, 1918 Act, iv) for the purpose of enlarging the College Council and forming a new interdenominational Senate that would confer theological degrees for all Christian denominations in India.
The Hindu saint Paramahansa Yogananda was an alumnus of this college and the Scottish Church College.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serampore_College   (756 words)

  
 Joshua Marshman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reverend Dr. Joshua Marshman was born in 1768 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England and died in Serampore, India in 1837.
Although there was a threat of a French naval attack the family landed safely at the Danish settlement of Serampore (a few miles north of Calcutta) on the 13th October 1799.
Joshua's son, John Clark Marshman (1794-1877), was also to become an important part of the missionary work at the College; he was also an official Bengali translator and published a Guide to the Civil Law which, before the work of Macaulay, was the civil code of India; he also wrote a "History of India" (1842).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joshua_Marshman   (1784 words)

  
 Serampore College: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Serampore College was founded in 1818 by English (English: An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) missionaries William Carey (William Carey: william carey (august 17, 1761 - june 9, 1834) was an english missionary...
In 1856, the Baptist Missionary Society in England took over the management of the College, and in 1857, the College became affiliated with the newly established University of Calcutta (University of Calcutta: more facts about this subject) and became a constituent college of that university.
Affiliating again with the University of Calcutta in 1911, Serampore College, in 1913, was authorised to award the Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor of Arts: A bachelor's degree in arts and sciences) degree.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/serampore_college   (556 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The college secured from the king Frederick VI of Denmark, a Royal Charter which empowered the college to cater upon the students degrees of rank and honour.
The college is marching forward in the second century with its glories past inspite of several difficulties.
College is actively considering the opening of some Post Graduate courses in two or three subjects requested by Director of Public Instruction and University and also considering the opening of subjects like Computer Science, Geography, Education etc. in under graduate level.
hooghly.nic.in /ser_hist.htm   (283 words)

  
 Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Serampore College is considered as the first Christian University in India which was run by the Danish Missionaries.
The principal of Serampore College, Dr. Howells, who was impressed by the personality of Mar Ivanios especially by his proficiency in English language, invited him to join Serampore College as a member of the staff.
Mar Ivanios College and the schools he started and the thousands of people who reaped the benefit of these educational institutions will remain as living witness to the achievements of this great visionary forever.
www.marivanioscollege.com /founder.html   (532 words)

  
 Serampore College, Serampore, India
Serampore College, Serampore, India, opened on July 15, 1818, under the founding initiative of William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward, the trio from the English Baptist Missionary Society.
Since Serampore was a Danish colony, Frederick the Sixth, King of Denmark, issued Serampore College its Royal Charter of Incorporation on February 23, 1827, in Copenhagen, Denmark (Charter, 1, Charter, 2, Charter, 3).
George Howells, one of two contributing authors of The Story of Serampore and Its College, served as principal of the Serampore College, 1906-1929, and came to be known as the "second founder of the College." Howells had previously served as a member of the Baptist Missionary Staff in Orissa.
www.wmcarey.edu /carey/serampore/serampore.htm   (1047 words)

  
 United Theological College - History and Mission
The College was inaugurated in July 1910 under the name “The United Theological College of South India and Ceylon” as “a Christian College where students may obtain a sound theological education”.
In 1919, a year after Serampore College was granted permission by the Act of the Government of Bengal to grant degrees in Theology, the College was affiliated to the Serampore College for the B. Degree.
The main campus of the college at 63 Miller’s Road, lies in close proximity to Bangalore Cantonment Railway Station, and is one of the landmarks in the city.
www.utcbangalore.org /historyandmission.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Friends of Serampore
Serampore College was founded in 1818 by Carey, Marshman and Ward to give an education in Arts and Science to students of every 'caste, colour or country' and to train a ministry for the growing Church in India.
Serampore was then a Danish colony, but the status has been reaffirmed for the study of Theology to the present day.
From 1800, Serampore was the centre of his work as translator of the Bible, linguist, social reformer, teacher and preacher of the Gospel.
www.friendsofserampore.org.uk   (395 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Degrees and Diplomas granted by the Serampore University are recognized by the universities in India and abroad for the purpose of Higher Education.
Serampore College was founded by William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward in 1818, at Serampore or Fredericknagore, then a Danish Settlement.
In 1827 the College was incorporated by a Royal Charter granted by King Frederick VI of Denmark with university rights and immunities and the power of conferring degrees.
www.ntcdoon.org /affiliation.htm   (311 words)

  
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Serampore's pioneer missionaries thus need to be seen as players on a large multi-cultural playing field at a very unusual moment in time.
Serampore College included a divinity department but was not constituted as a divinity college for Asiatic Christians.
In fact, it was only after the college was taken over by Indian leadership in post-independence India that criticism of the college as "impossibly expensive, wrongly located, and largely irrelevant to the life of the churches" begin to die down.
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 Life Of William Carey - Shoemaker & Missionary by George Smith, C.I.E., LL.D. | Chapter XV. Carey's Christian ...
It is a pleasure to record that while this volume is in the press (1909), a scheme is being promoted by the College Council for the reorganisation of the College on the lines of Carey's ideal, with a view to making it a centre of higher ministerial training for all branches of the Indian Church.
The Council is doing all within its power to reorganise the College on the broadest possible basis, believing that an institution with such inspiring traditions and associations should be utilised in the interests, not merely of one denomination, but of the whole Church in India and the nation.
It is prepared to welcome as full professors of the College, in Arts and Theology, representatives of other evangelical missions, who shall have special superintendence of the students belonging to their respective denominations, and be free to give them such supplementary instruction as may be thought necessary.
mywebpage.netscape.com /dkuyken1/lifeofcarey/chapter15.htm   (1022 words)

  
 William Cary Indian Mission
An unpleasant schism with the BMS followed in 1827 and the Serampore Mission found itself stranded.(9) As a result, British Baptist mission work ceased to be at the forefront of the world mission movement from the 1820s onwards.
Serampore College included a divinity department but was not constituted as a divinity college for Asiatic Christians (Marshman, II, 168-170, 463, 484-485).
This was addressed by Serampore's leaders in a bold and creative manner during the bicentennial "Carey celebrations" of 1992-1993, when they established a new mission studies programme in the college's theology department.
www.csichurch.com /article/william_carey.htm   (9809 words)

  
 John Clark Marshman: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This became known as 'Serampore Paper' and was used throughout the province.
Serampore was synomymous with the 'Friend of India' in European minds for much of the 19th century.
Marshman joined the staff of Serampore College (Serampore College: serampore college was founded in 1818 by english missionaries william carey, joshua...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/john_clark_marshman   (948 words)

  
 The Life of William Carey - Appendix
The management of the College, including its revenues and property, the choice of Professor and Tutors, the admission of Students, the appointment of all functionaries and servants, and the general order and government of the College, shall ever be vested in the Master and the Council.
The salaries of the Professors and Tutors in Serampore College shall be appointed, and the means of support for all functionaries, students and servants be regulated by the Council in such manner as shall best promote the objects of the Institution.
The Charter having declared that the number of the Professors and students in Serampore College remains unlimited, they shall be left thus unlimited, the number to be regulated only by the gracious providence of God and the generosity of the public in India, Europe and America.
www.wilderness-cry.net /bible_study/books/wmcary/appendix.html   (2252 words)

  
 Life of William Carey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His work among the pundit class, both in Serampore and in the college of Fort William, and the facilities in the mission-house for training natives, Eurasians, and the missionaries’ sons to be preachers, translators, and teachers, seemed to meet the immediate want.
The Serampore College began with thirty-seven students, of whom nineteen were native Christians and the rest Hindoos.
The vellum charter was prepared among them, empowering the College Council, consisting of the Governor of Serampore and the Brotherhood, to confer degrees like those of the Universities of Copenhagen and Kiel, but not carrying the rank in the State implied in Danish degrees unless with the sanction of the Crown.
www.reformedreader.org /rbb/carey/lifeofwilliamcarey/wcareych14.htm   (4868 words)

  
 :: Crossmap India ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Filadelfia Bible College aims to to equip native young men and women to have recognised the call of God in their lives for pastoral leadership and evangelism.
A post graduate training college in Bangalore, South India, committed to Biblically-based, evangelical, training of men and women who are the Church leaders, Bible school and seminary teachers, and cross-cultural missionaries of the 21st century.
Union Biblical Seminary is a postgraduate Theological College established in 1953 by 11 evangelical agencies and churches.
in.crossmap.com /theo/theolo.htm   (228 words)

  
 From Krishna Pal to Lal Behari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Papers from Serampore College were either lost in the various disasters which hit the mission such as the printing press fire of 1812, the flood of 1822, the evacuation of the library to Chinsurah in 1941, or were repatriated at intervals.
The Serampore missionaries visited his centres a number of times, hoping to convert the then guru and his ashramites but were repelled by the Hindu veneration of a guru, and the guru's inability to see anything sinful in his 'pride', which for his followers was an indication of his divinity.
The Serampore Missionaries thought that in view of his penitence, he should be forgiven and rehabilitated, and the Calcutta Brethren, as they came to be known, thought that he should be disciplined and put on probation.
www.multifaithnet.org /images/content/seminarpapers/FromKrishnaPaltoLalBehari.htm   (11052 words)

  
 Principal's Report 2005
Sadanda is the newly elected President of the Senate of Serampore College (University) and the Principal of the Karnataka Theological College, India.
The College is highly indebted to the Faculty spouses and the other staff members who worked hard as a team to offer the courses.
The college records with much love the wonderful contribution made by the student community for the smooth functioning of the college, through the integrated system of committees.
www.tclsl.org /tcl6_report.htm   (3501 words)

  
 Calcutta - Universities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Many of the first schools and colleges were established by the missionaries and reformists.
The nation's first homeopathy college was established in the city in 1880.
He established the Serampore Mission in 1800, Asia's first modern university in Serampore in 1827 and the Agri Horticultural Society in 1823.
www.bengalweb.com /edu/caledu3.html   (590 words)

  
 Serampore College Resource Page - Serampore College
The status accorded by the Danish Charter has since Serampore College been re-affirmed for the study of Theology and now forms the basis for degrees of all levels conferred by over forty theological colleges throughout India, and is administered by the Senate.It was incorporated by Royal Charter of 1827 and Bengal Government Act.IV of 1918.
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www.forensico.com /For-List_of_Colleges_San_-_Sn-/Serampore_College.html   (765 words)

  
 SeramporeCollege   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Serampore College has an environment of its own.
Historically it is one of Asia's oldest college.
The main building of the college is a brilliant piece of Victorian architecture.
www.geocities.com /shaswatap/SeramporeCollege.html   (131 words)

  
 The Life of William Carey by George Smith
The Serampore College and Mission lost all the funds it had in India.
Palmer and Co. was the greatest; the house at one time played a large part in the history of India, and in the debates and papers of Parliament.
Not only was the small balance in hand towards meeting the college and mission expenditure gone, but it was impossible to borrow even for a short time.
holycall.com /books/LWC92.HTM   (671 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Gurukul follows the rules and regulations formulated by the Senate of Serampore College for all Degree programs unless or otherwise specially mentioned in the cases of academic programs offered by the College.
English is the medium of instruction for all the courses and therefore, a reasonable proficiency in English language is required of all candidates.
A holder of a Theological Degree/Diploma of Universities/Theological Seminaries of India and other countries subject to the approval of the Senate of Serampore College prior to the admission.
www.gltc.edu /gurukul/03-academic/academic/print/admission.htm   (563 words)

  
 Dr. Monica Melanchthon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon is professor, Department of Old Testament, Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute, Chennai, India, and a member of the Senate of Serampore College, Serampore, India.
Later, she attended United Theological College, Serampore University, earning a bachelor of divinity degree in 1986.
Melanchthon was dean of bachelor of divinity studies and associate professor at Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute before she achieved her current position.
www.elca.org /assembly/03/melanchthon_bio.html   (235 words)

  
 Light of Life - Articles
While serving at Serampore College as Professor, a great desire was initiated in the mind of MA Achen to establish an ascetic Ashram in the linage of Indian Rishies but with Christian faith and ideologies.
It was in 1917, while he was still in Bengal serving Serampore College; the Monastic order of Imitation of Christ of Bethany was officially established.
As it was mentioned some where else, he encouraged many women from Kerala to undergo higher education in Calcutta at Diocesan College and College in Barisole run by Oxford Mission of Epiphany of England.
www.lightoflife.com /light_of_life_ArticlesG.htm   (1231 words)

  
 Memorial Service for Dr. S.J. Samartha, St. Mark's Cathedral - August 4, 2001, O.V. Jathananna
His theological thinking was initially shaped by the United Theological College, Bangalore, where he was a student from 1941-1945.
He left UTC in 1966 to become the Principal of Serampore College, Serampore, and later went to Geneva to the World Council of Churches.
Samartha's contribution as a theological educator is not limited to his time that he spent as a theological teacher or as a Principal in a theological College.
www.wcc-coe.org /wcc/what/interreligious/cd38-12.html   (1294 words)

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