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STOTS invites applications for seminary admission
St. Thomas Orthodox Theological Seminary invites applications for the new batch. The application form can be downloaded from the following link or can be obtained from the office. Minimum secular education required is graduation in any subject. Female candidates may also apply. The last date for the submission of application is September 30th 2011. The interview and written test will be on November 8th & 9th, 2011 respectively. Send in the duly filled application forms to:
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The seminary aims at the spiritual as well as academic formation of our future priests and missionaries. A meaningful transmission of our spiritual traditions to the cultural and social contexts of the modern Indians is our dream. On the one hand we try to maintain the traditions of our fathers in a meaningful way, but on the other hand we help the youngsters to find answers for the questions of the new millennium. At present we have 55 students.
Field Training
STOTS tries to maintain its thrust on a mission orientation always. A one-year long Field Training is an important part of the Curriculum.Fr.Yohanan K. is in-charge of the Field Training programme. This program is inline with activities of Serampore University, where they have started giving more emphasis to the field exposure for students. Earlier it was only required for the fourth year students.
Academic Affliations
It was a long cherished wish of the Church to affiliate the Seminary to the Serampore University. A commission of the University visited the Seminary on 9th and 10th October 2002 to evaluate its credentials for affiliation. The commission recommended positively and the Seminary was declared as an affiliated college of the Senate of Serampore in February 2003.
Courses
We are affliated to the Senate of Serampore College.The courses offered are G.S.T and Bachelor of Divinity (BD).It is our dream that the seminary should not remain just as a centre for training our priests as per the Serampore curriculum. Therefore more weightage is given to the Orthodox traditions and a mission oriented curriculum. The theological training of the lay people in general and that of women in particular has already started with the joining of Ms.Cincy Mariam Philip, the first women student at the seminary.
