Carey Baptist College

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Carey Baptist College
Address
473 Great South Road
Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand
Coordinates 36°54′12″S 174°48′31″E / -36.903458, 174.808702
Information
Authority Baptist Churches of New Zealand
Religion Christian
Denomination non-denominational
Principal Paul Windsor
Staff 12 full-time
21 part-time[1]
Students 329[1]
Type Private college
Accreditation(s) New Zealand Qualifications Authority[2]
Opened 1926[3]
Founded 1924[3]
Homepage www.carey.ac.nz

Carey Baptist College is a Bible and theological college for training in mission, ministry, and formation based in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the theological college of the Baptist Churches of New Zealand.

The college was founded in 1924 as New Zealand Baptist Theological College. It held its first classes in 1926, originally training men to be ministers for Baptist churches in New Zealand.[3]

The college was renamed in 1992 to Carey Baptist College after the English Baptist missionary William Carey.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Member Schools. New Zealand Association of Theological Schools. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
  2. ^ Education Organisations details - Carey Baptist College (Penrose). New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
  3. ^ a b c (1966) "BAPTIST CHURCHES - Theological Training", in A. H. McLintock: An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand 1966. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. ISBN 978-0-478-18451-8. 
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