The General Council of the Assemblies of God of India is a
Pentecostal
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestantism, Protestant Charismatic Christianity, Charismatic Christian movement[India
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. It is affiliated with the
World Assemblies of God Fellowship
The Assemblies of God (AG), officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 144 autonomous self-governing national groupings of churches that together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination."Assemblies of God" ...
. The headquarters is in
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
,
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
.
History
The General Council of the Assemblies of God of India has its origins in a mission of the
Assemblies of God USA
The Assemblies of God USA (AG), officially the General Council of the Assemblies of God, is a Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States founded in 1914 during a meeting of white Pentecostal ministers at Hot Springs, Arkansas (with e ...
in
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
in 1915. The council was founded in 1995.
[ Michael Bergunder, ''The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century'', Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, USA, 2008, p. 46] In 2016, it had 5,200 churches.
Bible Colleges and schools
Bible Colleges and schools affiliated with the Assemblies of God India:
* Centre for Global Leadership Development, Bangalore, Karnataka
** Southern Asia Bible College
** Global School of Open Learning
** Global School of Counselling
** Global School of Media, Arts and Communication
* Bethel Bible College, Punalur, Kerala
* Trinity Bible College, Kozhikode
* Buntain Theological College, Kolkata
* Karnataka Institute of Theology, Chitradurga, Karnataka
* Antioch Bible Seminary and College, Pondicherry
* A.G. Tamilnadu Bible College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
* Madras Bible College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
* Antioch Biblical Seminary & College, Pondicherry.
* Southwestern India Bible College, Junnar, Maharashtra
* Trinity Bible College, Kanakapillaivalasai, Tamilnadu
See also
*
Christianity in India
Christianity is India's third-largest religion with about 27.8 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as of the 2011 census. The written records of the Saint Thomas Christians state that Christianity was introduced to th ...
*
History of Pentecostalism in India
Pentecostalism has grown in India since its introduction in the early twentieth century. Several Pentecostal missionaries who had participated in the Azusa Street Revival visited Kerala from 1909 onwards. During the 1920s the missionary Robert F. ...
References
External links
Official Website
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1995 establishments in India
Pentecostalism in India
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
Pentecostal denominations in Asia