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{{Infobox University
|name=St. John's Regional Seminary, Kondadaba (Philosophate)
|native_name= St John's, Kondadaba
|image_name= Philosophate.jpg
|latin_name= Regio SeminarumM SanctusS Iohannes (Philosophia)
|motto=[[Latin]]: Sapientes, Sanctus ''[[English language|English]]: Wisdom, Holiness.''
|established=1987
|type=[[Propaedeutics|Propaedeutic]] [[Seminary]]
|president=[[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Raminedi Balaraju ''[[Salesians of Don Bosco|SDB]]'', (Provincial)
|rector=[[Father (title)|Fr.]] Koonananickal Jose, ''[[Salesians of Don Bosco|SDB]]''
|principal=[[Father (title)|Fr.]] Mathiekal Wilson, ''[[Salesians of Don Bosco|SDB]]''
|students=
|city = [[Kothavalasa]], [[Vizianagaram District]] 535 183, [[Andhra Pradesh]]. [[Telephone]]:91 08966 273412
|country = [[India]]
|coor ={{coord|17|53|56|N|83|9|8|E|type:edu}}
|campus=Rural
|affiliations=
*[[Andhra University]], [[Visakhapatnam]] 530 003, [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]
* [[Roman Curia]], The Congregation for Catholic Education, Piazza Pio XII 3, 00193, [[Rome]], [[Italy]].
|website=[http://stjohnskondadaba.blogspot.com/ www.stjohnskondadaba.blogspot.com]
|footnotes=Data as of September 2010
}}
'''St. John's Regional Seminary (Philosophate)'''<ref>Bosco Seva Kendra. Official Site. Internet, accessed 24 September 2008. [http://www.boscosevakendra.org/Communities/CommunityDetails.asp?offset=11&HouseId=1001]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> founded in 1987<ref>Handbook and Calendar 2008-2009, St. John's Regional Seminary, Kondadaba, Kothavalasa 535 183, Vizianagaram District.</ref> is a [[propaedeutics|propaedeutic]] seminary equipping students with philosophical training. It is located in the rural town of [[Kothavalasa]] in the [[Vizianagaram District]] in [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]].

==Affiliation==
The seminary is not affiliated to any university.<ref name="handbookcalendar">Handbook and Calendar 2008-2009, ''[[op. cit.]]''</ref> However, the Seminary is listed as a propaedeutic seminary under the [[Roman Curia]].<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cevang/pont_soc/pospa/documents/rc_pospa_pro_20011128_maj-sem-asia_it.html The Roman Curia. Internet, accessed 25 September 2008]</ref>

The seminary used to offer a two-year course in philosophy.<ref name="handbookcalendar"/> but, from 1999, it began offering a three-year course<ref name="handbookcalendar"/> in philosophy to enable its students to simultaneously pursue the secular graduate degrees of [[Bachelor of Arts]] (B. A.) and [[Master of Arts]] (M. A.) through the School of Distance Education, [[Andhra University]], [[Visakhapatnam]].

==Background==
[[St. John's Regional Seminary]]<ref>Carlo Torriani, History of the PIME IN Andhra Pradesh, PIME Publications, Eluru. [http://www.atma-o-jibon.org/english/torriani_pime_india3.htm]</ref> was founded in 1965<ref>J. N. M. Wijngaards, Life and Work. Internet, accessed 24 September 2008. {{cite web |url=http://www.catherineofsiena.net/admin/wijng_cv.asp |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-10-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010045122/http://www.catherineofsiena.net/admin/wijng_cv.asp |archivedate=2008-10-10 }}</ref> in [[Ramanthapur]], [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] to train Priests for the Catholic Church in Andhra Pradesh. Later in 1987, the seminary was split into two.<ref name="Handbook5">Handbook and Calendar 2010 -2011, p. 5</ref> The theologiate was retained in Hyderabad while the philosophate was moved to [[Kothavalasa]] in the northern circars of [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref name="Handbook5"/>

==Authorities and officials==
According to an agreement signed between the Andhra Pradesh Bishop’s Council and the [http://www.donboscohyderabad.org Salesian Province of St. Joseph, Hyderabad], on 24 May 1993 the management of the seminary has been entrusted to the [[Salesians of Don Bosco]] for a period of ten years. The contract was in 2003 for a period of six years. It was renewed again in 2009 for ten more years.<ref name="Handbook5"/> The Seminary is overseen by the following Salesians:
[[File:St John's Kondadaba (Chapel).jpg|thumb|St.John's Chapel at Kondadaba]]
* [[Provincial superior|Provincial]] - [[The Reverend|Rev.]] [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Raminedi Balaraju, ''[[Salesians of Don Bosco|SDB]]''
* [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] - [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Koonananickal Jose, ''SDB''
* [[Dean (religion)|Dean]] - [[Brother (Catholic)|Br.]] Vincent Castilino, ''SDB''
* [[Principal (school)|Principal]] - [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Mathiekal Wilson, ''SDB''
* [[Academic administration|Administrator]] - [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Cherapanath Rinoy, ''SDB''

==Admissions==
The seminary follows a [[semester]] system.<ref name="Handbook59">Handbook and Calendar 2010 -2011, pp. 5-9</ref> Admission is for [[Catholic]] pupils who are eligible to pursue priestly studies and who come from any of the ten Catholic dioceses and two archdioceses in Andhra Pradesh as well as any religious Congregation willing to send their students for Priestly formation.<ref>Inferred from List of Students, Handbook and Calendar 2010-2011, ''pp.'' 22-24</ref>

==Staff==

===Faculty<ref name="Handbook17">Handbook and Calendar 2010-2011, ''op. cit. p. 17''</ref>===
* Theology and Spirituality, English
** [[Father (title)|Fr.]] K. Jose
** [[Father (title)|Fr.]] S. Devadas
* Systematic Philosophy
** [[Father (title)|Fr.]] M. Wilson
** [[Father (title)|Fr.]] C. Rinoy
** [[Brother (Catholic)|Br.]] V. Castilino

===Visiting Faculty<ref>Handbook and Calendar 2010-2011, ''op. cit. p. 18''</ref>===
* [[Nun#Distinction between a nun and a religious sister|Sr.]] Philomena D'Souza, ''FMA''
* [[Father (title)|Fr.]] G. Lazar, ''[[Divine Word Missionaries|SVD]]''
* [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Mark K. Raj, ''[[Society of Jesus|SJ]]''
* [[Father (title)|Fr.]] C. P. Varghese, ''[[Salesians of Don Bosco|SDB]]''
* [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Francis Stephen, ''MSFS''
* [[Father (title)|Fr.]] P. Antony
* [[Father (title)|Fr.]] P. Johnson, ''OFM Cap.''
* [[Father (title)|Fr.]] Francis Stephen, ''MSFS''

===Other staff<ref name="Handbook17"/>===
* Assistant Librarian and Clerk
** [[Sri]] Ch. Sai Ram
* Computers
** [[Sri]] R. Joseph

===Past faculty===
* Bishop [[G. Prasad]]

==See also==
''Other university-affiliated seminaries in [[Coastal Andhra|Andhra]] region''
* [[Master's College of Theology]], [[Visakhapatnam]]
* [[Bethel Bible College, Guntur]]

''Theological degrees:''
* [[Doctor of Divinity]] (D.Div.), [[Doctor of Theology]] (Th.D.), [[Master of Theology]] (Th.M.), [[Bachelor of Divinity]] (B.Div.), [[Bachelor of Theology]] (Th.B.), [[Licentiate in Theology]], Licentiate in Sacred Scripture

''Members of the Andhra Pradesh Federation of Churches''
* [[Archbishop]] [[M. Joji]]
* [[Bishop]] [[G. Prasad]]
* [[Bishop]] [[D. M. Prakasam]]
* [[Bishop]] [[G. Dyvasirvadam]]
* [[Bishop]] [[V. E. Christopher]]
* [[Bishop]] [[B. P. Sugandhar]]
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''Indigenous scholars''
* [[B. V. Subbamma]]
* [[Y. D. Tiwari]]
* [[D. S. Amalorpavadass]] ''[[List of acronyms and initialisms: A#AK|a.k.a.]]'' [[Swamy Amalorananda]]

==References==
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