St John's College, Auckland
| St John's Theological College | |
|---|---|
| Māori:Hoani Tapu te Kaikauwhau i te Rongopai | |
| Anglicantheological college | |
 St John's College Chapel,c. 1900 | |
| Location | Meadowbank,Auckland,New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 36°52′25″S174°50′27″E/ 36.8735°S 174.8408°E |
| Full name | College of St John the Evangelist |
| Motto | Māori:Te Whakamana i ngā Kairui |
| Motto in English | Enabling Missional Leaders |
| Established | 1843 |
| Principal | Rev. Canon Tony Gerritson |
| Benefactor | Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia |
| Residents | 50+ |
| Endowment | NZ$470 million[when?] |
| Website | www |
TheCollege of St John the EvangelistorSt John's Theological Collegeis the residentialtheological collegeof theAnglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.
The site at Meadowbank in Auckland is the base for theological education for the three Tikanga of the Province with ministry formation onsite as well as diploma level teaching in the regions across New Zealand and Polynesia. The College has partnerships with various other tertiary providers of degrees in theology.
The College was established in 1843 byGeorge Augustus Selwyn,BishopofNew Zealand,initially atTe Waimate mission.[1]
The College, through the St John's College Trust Board, is one of the best endowed theological colleges in theAnglican Communion,with assets in 2014 of NZ$293m.[2][3]It was subject to a critical review of its financial sustainability in 2014.[4]
Theological activities
[edit]It taught theLicentiate in Theology(LTh) for the Joint Board of Theological Studies from 1968. Later it offeredMelbourne College of Divinitydegrees, primarily theBD.From 1993 it offered theUniversity of AucklandBTheol.
Undergraduate ordinands study a NZ Diploma in Christian Studies and then undertake the remaining years of their theology degree atLaidlaw College,Carey Baptist Collegeor theUniversity of Otago.Other lay and ordained persons around NZ study the NZ Diploma in Christian Studies regionally (through weekend intensives) and by FlexiLearn (a distance learning programme with live online classes).
It previously had an on-siteecumenicalpartnership withTrinity Methodist Theological College,the theological college of theMethodist Church of New Zealand,but now has only Anglican students.
The John Kinder Theological Library Te Puna Atuatanga is the library and archives for the college as well as for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia. Although based on the St John's College site, it also has responsibilities to the whole Church and all its theological educational enterprises. It is named afterJohn Kinder,a former principal of the college.[5]
Notable alumni and alumnae
[edit]- Frank Buckland(1847–1915), MP and mayor[6]
- Thomas Frederic Cheeseman,notable English born botanist and naturalist
- Mary Gray-Reeves,bishop of theEpiscopal Diocese of El Camino RealinCalifornia,US
- Hone Kaa
- Trevor Ogilvie-Grant, 4th Baron Strathspey(1879–1948), member of theHouse of Lords[7]
- Edward Osborne-Gibbes,(1850–1931) — abaronet,former Secretary of the New Zealand Education Department and the architect of that country's modern public education system[8]
- Harry WollastonKCMGISO,(1846–1921), Comptroller-General of Customs in Australia[9]
Gallery
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Panorama of St John's college Tamaki Auckland St John's College 1862 byCaroline Harriet Abraham[10] -
St. John's College and Chapel, Aucklandc. 1911
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References
[edit]- ^Limbrick, Warren E. (1990)."Selwyn, George Augustus".Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.Retrieved22 April2019.
- ^The St John's College Trust Board report to Synod, "The church faces many challenges", 14 May 2014. In 2012 Princeton Theological Seminary had endowments of US$867m and the next richest American seminary, the University of Denver (Colorado Seminary), had US$373m. The next richest, the Columbia Theological Seminary had US$165m
- ^"Almanach of Higher Education 2013".
- ^The St John's College Trust Board report to Synod, "The church faces many challenges", 14 May 2014
- ^"The John Kinder Theological Library".St John's College, Auckland.Retrieved26 September2011.
- ^"Obituary".The New Zealand Herald.Vol. LII, no. 16114. 31 December 1915. p. 7.Retrieved15 February2014.
- ^"An Open Secret".Poverty Bay Herald.Vol. XLVII, no. 15266. 14 July 1920. p. 5.Retrieved16 October2014.
- ^"Education Department".The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District].1897. p. 168.
- ^"Dr. Wallaston".The Week.Brisbane, Queensland. 18 February 1912. p. 13.
- ^"Panorama".National Library of New Zealand. n.d.Retrieved29 June2014.
External links
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