Darshan Institute of Theology

The Institute of Theology is affiliated to the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, Rome and to St. Peter's Pontifical Institute, Bangalore. Students receive the Bachelor's Degree in Theology (B.Th.) after completing their theological studies. Students from Capuchin jurisdictions and other Religious Orders such as OSB, Rosminians and Heralds of the Good News also study here. Darshan Institute of Theology has further furnished itself with all the proper academic facilities and technical audio-visual equipment to function principally as the Institute for the Religious and Theological formation of the Capuchin Friars of the Holy Trinity Province that is spread over the six States of India, viz. Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland and Mizoram. It has also now brought up-to-date its Statutes in line with the recent Apostolic Constitution Veritatis Gaudium (2017) and the Norms of Application (2017) and Norms for Affiliation (2020) issued by the Congregation for Catholic Education regarding ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties. It is done with the aim of continuing to attain via St. Peter’s Pontifical Institute to which it is affiliated, the academic degree of the basic first cycle of Theology, i.e. baccalaureate. Hence, special attention is paid to the requisite norms that pertain to the affiliated Institutes of Theology (VG 63.1). Other than St. Peter’s Pontifical Institute of Theology in Bangalore,