Kristu Jyoti College, Bengaluru Urban the Studentate of Theology of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Bengaluru, traces its origin and established on 26th October 1967.

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Kristu Jyoti College traces its origin to October 26, 1967. His Eminence Cardinal D.F. Lourdusamy, then Archbishop of Bangalore, blessed the college building in the presence of Rev. Fr. Aloysius Ricceri SDB, then Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, on February 24, 1968, thereby offiically inaugurating the college.

Kristu Jyoti College, the Studentate of Theology of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Bangalore, traces its origin to October 26, 1967. His Eminence Cardinal D.S. Lourdusamy, then Archibishop of Bangalore, blessed the college buildding in the presence of Rev. Fr. Aloysius Ricceri SDB, then Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, on February 24, 1968, thereby officially inaugurating the college.

Kristu Jyoti College has been affiliated since 1981 to the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Salesian University,  Rome (Italy) conferring the Bachelor’s Degree in Theology (B.Th.).

His Eminence Cardinal D.S. Lourdusamy, the then Archbishop of Bangalore, blessed the college building in the presence of Rev. Fr. Aloysius Ricceri SDB, the then Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco, on February 24, 1968, thereby officially inaugurating the college.

The college serves the different Salesian Provinces of India, as also students belonging to other Religious Orders and Congregations and dioceses.

From the very outset, Kristu Jyoti College has been deeply involved in and committed to the uplift and welfare of the specific locality where it is situated, and of the city of Bangalore as a whole. This involvement and commitment assumed different thrusts in the concrete.

With a view to a more organized and articulated service to society, the Social Service Guild of Kristu Jyoti College (SSG) was constituted as a registered society on December 12, 1973.

It has been functioning ever since and grown from strength to strength.

One red-letter day which marks the annals of this guild is the event familiarly styled: "Freedom at Midnight", when, on November 6, 1975, thanks to the intervention of the members of the Social Service Guild of Kristu Jyoti College, 40 families of bonded labourers in Chikka Basavanapura, (men, women, and children), were set free.

The SSG accompanied these families during the difficult journey from bondage to freedom and helped them set up a Cooperative Society. Currently, the SSG is involved in ten of the villages neighboring Kristu Jyoti College (Anandapura, Bhattarahalli, Chikka Basavanapura, Halehalli, Janata Colony, Jyoti Nagar, Kithaganur, Kithaganur Colony, Priyanka Nagar and Swatantara Nagar).

Among the different programmes which the SSG has articulated in its response to the concrete challenges is Scholarship Programme for the Children, Crèches, Tailoring Centres, the Formation of Self-Help Groups and Animation Programmes.

A programme of Theological Formation involves far more than mere intellectual input, assimilation, and reflection. Among other things, it calls for the formulation of projects of pastoral action involving practical strategies pertaining to processes, methods, verification and rectification, all in the light of the Gospel and the signs of the times.

The college also has a Contact Centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi to offer three years course in Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy.

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A programme of Theological Formation involves far more than mere intellectual input, assimilation and reflection. Among other things it calls for the formulation of projects of pastoral action involving practical strategies pertaining to processes, methods, verification and rectification, all in the light of the Gospel and the signs of the times.

The college serves the different Salesian Provinces of India, as also students beloning to other Religious orders and Congregations and dioceses. Kristu Jyoti College hsa been affiliated since 1981 to the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Salesian University (Rome), conferring the Bachelor's Degree in Theology (B.Th.).

The Church pays special attention to the formation of her ministers. Church directives require that priests undergo a minimum of four years devoted to an intense and specifically priestly formation. These directives are implemented at this college, with particular emphasis on the Salesian dimension.