St John's College is one of the higher educational institutions of the

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, also known as the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic '' sui iuris'' particular church that employs the West Syriac Rite and is in full communion with the worldwide Catholic Church posse ...

. The college is situated at

Anchal Anchal is an urban town located in the centre of Kollam district in Kerala, India. Etymology There are several legends about the origin of the name Anchal. One legend is that there used to be an "Anchalappis" at the site of the present range ...

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

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. It is one of the Malankara Syrian Catholic colleges established and administered by the Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum in accordance with the rights of the minority community guaranteed in the Constitution of India. The college was founded by Archbishop

Benedict Mar Gregorios Benedict Mor Gregorios (1 February 1916 – 10 October 1994) was the second metropolitan archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. Life Gregorios or "Thangalathil Thirumeni" was born and raised in the Malankara Orthodox Church in Kal ...

and is supported by the patronage of Moran Mor

Baselios Cleemis Baselios Cleemis (born 15 June 1959) is the current Major Archbishop-Catholicos of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. He was made a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. At the time of his elevation, he was the you ...

. The college is re-accredited by NAAC with A grade in May 2015. It is the third college in Kollam district to receive an A grade. The College, affiliated to the University of Kerala, was started in 1964 with pre-degree course and upgraded successively with B.A, B.Sc and B.Com Degree courses in 1967, M.Sc Mathematics in 1995, B.A. Communicative English (Semester) in 1998, M.A. Public Administration (Semester) in 1999, and M.Sc Environmental Science (Semester) in 2001. On 13 September 2014, the college celebrated its Golden Jubilee.

Programmes offered

# B.A. Communicative English # B.A. Economics # B.A. Malayalam # B.A. Political Science # B.Com # B.Sc. Botany # B.Sc. Chemistry # B.Sc. Mathematics # B.Sc. Physics # B.Sc. Zoology # M.A. Public Administration # M.Sc. Chemistry # M.Sc. Environmental Science # M.Sc. Mathematics

Notable alumni

* B. Kemal Pasha, justice of the high court of Kerala * Justice P. G. Ajithkumar, Judge, High Court of Kerala * Ameer Shahul, author and environmentalist

References

# Handbook, St John's College, Anchal, 2013-2015

External links

Official website

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