Background
Joshua Russell Chandran was born in Nagercoil, South India on 6 May 1918 into a family who were communicant members of the South India United Church.
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Joshua Chandran
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Senate of Serampore College. University of Madras.
Career
After schooling and collegiate education, he took his Bachelor and Master of Arts in Mathematics at the University of Madras, Chennai (1933–1938). In 1941 he enrolled at the United Theological College, Bengaluru in 1941, where he took his Bachelor of Divinity in 1945. Pastorate and further study Chandran belonged to the South India United Church.
Which made him a pastor of South Travancore Church Council in 1945.
He was ordained on 20 October 1946, and he continued serving as pastor until 1947. in 1947 he left India for Britain, to study at the University of Oxford, Mansfield College, Oxford for pursuing a Bachelor of Letters His Bachelor of Letters He then studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York, during the academic year 1949–1950 earning an South.T.M.
Teacher In 1954 Chandran succeeded Max Hunter Harrison as Principal, and remained in post until 1983, when he was succeeded by East. C. John. Theological education As the first Indian Principal of the United Theological College, Bengaluru, J. R. Chandran provided quality leadership to the College in many aspects.
In 1970 and 1971 he also served as President of the Senate of Serampore College.
He was the first President of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) for the first five-year term (1975–1981). Church leadership India"s first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) in West Bengal conferred upon Russell Chandran an honorary doctorate in 1962 Although Russell Chandran retired in 1984, he began living in Bengaluru. He went to Suva, Fiji to the Pacific Theological College for some time before returning to Bengaluru.
On 27 September 2000, Joshua Russell Chandran died in Bangalore.
Achievements
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India"s first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) in West Bengal conferred upon Russell Chandran an honorary doctorate in 1962 In 1978 Samuel Amirtham and others also came out with a festschrift in honour of Chandran, entitled A Vision for Manitoba: Essays on Faith, Theology, and Society in Honour of Joshua Russell Chandran.
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Christianity