page_title: Andhra Christian Theological College
section_title: Serampore University affiliation
hierarchical_section_title: Andhra Christian Theological College / Serampore University affiliation
caption_attribution_description: മലയാളം: മാര്‍ അപ്രേം മെത്രാപ്പോലീത്ത മലബാരിന്റെയും ഇന്ത്യയുടെയും മെത്രാപ്പോലീത്ത ഇപ്പോള്‍ പാത്രയര്‍കീസ് സിംഹാസന സംരക്ഷകന്‍
context_page_description: Andhra Christian Theological College is a seminary in Telangana which was founded in 1964. It is affiliated with India's first university, the Senate of Serampore College, and has degree-granting authority under a Danish charter ratified by the government of West Bengal. ACTC is on the Hussain Sagar canal in Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, about 4 kilometres from the Secunderabad Junction railway station.
  The college was founded on the Lutheran Theological College campus in Rajahmundry and the founding societies included the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Church of South India, the Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars, the Methodist Church in India and the South Andhra Lutheran Church. The Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches held its B.D. classes at ACTC in 1967, and in 1972 the B.D. programme of the Ramayapatnam Baptist Theological Seminary was integrated into the college. When M. Victor Paul was principal, Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Church joined the college.
  Christian missions in Andhra Pradesh opened seminaries in Gooty, Dornakal, Ramayapatnam, Luthergiri, Kakinada and Shamshabad.
context_section_description: The college has affiliated since its founding with the Senate of Serampore College (University).
caption: Metropolitan Aprem Mooken of the Assyrian Church of the East[54] visited the college during the Church History Association of India's 1988 triennial conference.[55]
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