page_title: Andhra Christian Theological College
section_title: Notable figures
hierarchical_section_title: Andhra Christian Theological College / Notable figures
caption_attribution_description: English: Principal's house
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: Faculty:
  Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church:
  W. D. Coleman, Ph.D. (Hartford): the college's first principal
  W. P. Peery, Ph.D. (Duke): later taught at the United Theological College, Bangalore
  G. Devasahayam, S.T.M. (Philadelphia): third president of the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church
  M. Victor Paul, D.Min. (Luther): ninth president of the church
  R. R. Sundara Rao, Ph.D. (Wisconsin): later principal of the Gurukul Lutheran Theological College in Chennai
  Church of South India:
  B. E. Devaraj, L.Th. (Serampore): wrote the Lambadi version of the New Testament
  Eric J. Lott, Ph.D. (Lancaster): later taught at the United Theological College, Bangalore
  P. Victor Premasagar, Ph.D. (St Andrews): Tripos, fourth bishop of the Diocese of Medak and moderator of the Church of South India Synod
  Ryder Devapriam, Th.D. (GTS): bishop of the Diocese of Nandyal and moderator of the Church of South India Synod
  G. Dyvasirvadam, M.Th. (Serampore): present bishop of the Krishna-Godavari Diocese and moderator of the Church of South India Synod
  G. T. Abraham, Th.M. (Virginia): bishop]] of the Nandyal Diocese
  K. Reuben Mark, Ph.D. (Higginbottom): present bishop of Karimnagar Diocese
  Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars
  Muriel Spurgeon Carder, Th.D. (Toronto): the Canadian Baptist Ministries' first woman priest
  Waldo Penner, M. Th. (Berkeley): pioneered attempts to found the college with A. B. Masilamani
  Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches:
  Louis F. Knoll, Ph.D. (Berkeley): co-founder of the college
  Gaddala Solomon, Th.M. (Eastern): Old Testament scholar
  Ravela Joseph, Th.M. (Andover): church history teacher and lyricist
  Suppogu Joseph, D.Th. (Serampore): member of the Serampore council
  Other churches:
  de:Jürgen Fangmeier, Dr. Theol. (Basel): taught systematic theology from 1987 to 1990
  Alumni
  Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church:
  Bathineni Venkata Subbamma, Ph.D. (Wittenberg): first woman senator at Senate of Serampore College (University)
  Ch. Victor Moses, M.Th. (Serampore): twelfth president of the church
  V. E. Christopher, B.D. (Serampore): thirteenth president of the church
  B. Suneel Bhanu, M.Th. (Serampore): fourteenth president of the church
  K. Frederick Paradesi Babu, B.D. (Serampore): current church president
  Church of South India:
  D. N. Samuel, B.D. (Serampore): fifth bishop of the Diocese of Dornakal
  A. Rajarathnam, B.D. (Serampore): sixth bishop of Dornakal
  Samuel Kanaka Prasad, B.D. (Serampore): sixth bishop of the Medak Diocese
  B. D. Prasada Rao, M.Th. (Serampore): present bishop of the Rayalaseema Diocese
  Vadapalli Prasada Rao, B.D. (Serampore): present bishop of Dornakal
  Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha, B.D. (Serampore): present bishop of the Nandyal Diocese
  T. George Cornelious, B.D. (Serampore): present bishop of Krishna-Godavari Diocese
  Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars:
  S. E. Krupa Rao, S.T.M. (Union): Patriarch of the convention
  M. S. G. Lalitha Kumari, B. D. (Serampore): First ordained Woman priest of the convention
caption: Principal's house
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