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Bishop's College offers a theological education grounded in the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Protestant and Anglican tradition with an emphasis upon Contextual theological education. Founded in 1820 by the first Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, Thomas Middleton at Shibpur, the original buildings today house IISET (Indian Institute of Science, Engineering & Technology) earlier called BESU and still earlier the Bengal Engineering College. Around 1883, Bishop's College moved to its present campus on AJC Bose Road in Kolkata and has served to prepare Christians for the priesthood as well as train catechists and teachers ever since. Bishop's College began as an Anglican college but with the formation of the Church of North India (CNI) on 29th Novemeber, 1970 become a College owned and managed by the CNI. However, it is a college that is ecumenical in its outlook and has teachers and students from many non-Roman Catholic Christian Traditions.

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Bishop’s College in Kolkata

Estb. Year

1820

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University Grants Commission (UGC)

Type

Private

Location

Kolkata, West Bengal 

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