Waldo Penner
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The Reverend Doctor Waldo Penner CBM |
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| Born |
Waldo Penner October 3, 1919 Secunderabad,India |
| Died | May 5, 2006 (aged 86) St. Catharines,Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | B.A,B.D,M.Th. |
| Alma mater | McMaster University,Hamilton, American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, California (formerly Berkeley Baptist Divinity College) |
| Occupation | Ecclesiastical Administrator and Pastor |
| Years active | 1946-1981 in India |
| Parent(s) | Anna and John Penner |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Church | Canadian Baptist Ministries |
| Ordained | 1945 |
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Offices held
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Principal, Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada, (1958–1964) |
| Title | The Reverend |
Waldo Penner (born 1919; died 2006) was a Baptist missionary who served in India from 1946 through 1981 as a team member of the Canadian Baptist Ministries. Penner was born in Secunderabad in India where his parents were missionaries of the American Baptist Mission.
For collegiate studies, Penner studied at the McMaster University,Hamilton for the graduate degrees of B.A. and B.D.. Penner also studied for a postgraduate course leading to M.Th. at the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School (renamed as the American Baptist Seminary of the West), Berkeley.
After Penner's ordination in 1945, he volunteered for missionary service in India and stayed on in the country for more than 35 years.
In 1958 when A. B. Masilamani stepped down as Principal of the Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada, the Seminary Council appointed Waldo Penner to take on the Principalship of the Seminary. It was during this period that ecumenical conversations were building up for the formation of a unified Seminary in the state of Andhra Pradesh (Telangana included). Penner, together with his companion, A. B. Masilamani were in the forefront of the ecumenical conversations leading to the formation of the Andhra Christian Theological College, Rajahmundry in 1964 together with the Anglicans, Congregationalists, Lutherans, the Methodists and the Wesleyans.
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