Commonwealth Bible College
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Commonwealth Bible College (1948-1993) Southern Cross College (1993-2009) |
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| Motto | You can tell. |
| Established | 1948 (as Commonwealth Bible College) |
| President | Michael Murphy |
| Principal | Rev Assoc Prof Stephen Fogarty |
| Students | > 2000 |
| Location |
Parramatta, NSW, Australia 33°49′14″S 151°00′26″E / 33.820448°S 151.007138°ECoordinates: 33°49′14″S 151°00′26″E / 33.820448°S 151.007138°E |
| Campus | Multiple campuses - Sydney, Brisbane, Global Online |
| Colours |
Orange |
| Affiliations |
Australian Christian Churches Assemblies of God Council for Christian Colleges and Universities |
| Website | ac.edu.au |
Alphacrucis College (AC, formerly Commonwealth Bible College and Southern Cross College) is a Christian tertiary college and is the official ministry training college of Australian Christian Churches, the Assemblies of God in Australia. The College has several campuses, with the main campus in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. The College has programmes running in various colleges and churches around Australia. Since the College was founded in 1948, over 3,000 students have been trained and the graduates are engaged in ministry all around the world.
AC offers several vocational education and training courses in ministry, business, music, chaplaincy and counselling; accredited by the Australian Skills Quality Authority. It is also a non-self-accrediting higher education institution, authorised to provide a limited range of theology, ministry, business, leadership, and arts degrees up to doctorate level, including a Korean language programme. The college ethos is based on a Pentecostal/Charismatic orientation. In 2009, the college had an Equivalent Full Time Student Load of over 500.
AC began as "Commonwealth Bible College" in 1948 in Melbourne, after an abortive attempt by Henry Wiggins to set up the college in the 1930s. In 1949 the college moved to Brisbane, first to New Farm, and in 1961 to a purpose-built campus on the Brisbane River which was destroyed in the 1974 Brisbane flood.
After a year of temporary operation at Glad Tidings Tabernacle in Brisbane, a new campus was obtained and refurbished at Katoomba, New South Wales in the former Palais Royale guesthouse. The facilities of the Illawara Bible College were later added to the campus. The college remained at Katoomba until 1995. In 1993 the name was changed, first to "Southern Cross Bible College" and then to "Southern Cross College of the Assemblies of God in Australia Ltd" (not to be confused with Southern Cross University). From early 1996 to August 2011, the college was at Chester Hill, New South Wales. For a period during this time, the college was associated with the Sydney College of Divinity.
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