Motto | Latin: "Veritatem eme et noli vendere" |
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Motto in English | "Buy the truth and sell it not" (taken from Proverbs 23:23) |
Established | 1853 | (Assembly's College)
Academic affiliation | Queen's University Belfast (1926-2021) St Mary's University, Twickenham(1921- ) |
Principal | Michael McClenahan |
Address | 108 Botanic Avenue , , Belfast BT7 1JT 54°35′06″N 5°55′52″W / 54.585°N 5.931°W |
Affiliations | Presbyterian Church in Ireland |
Website | union |
Union Theological College is the theological college for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and is situated in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is governed by the Council for Training in Ministry. It has been responsible for training people for ministry in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and also runs courses open to the wider public, including distance learning courses offered through BibleMesh.
The professors of the college constitute the Presbyterian Theological Faculty of Ireland (PTFI) which holds a Royal Charter to award postgraduate degrees.
The majority of ministers and deaconesses for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland are trained at the college, but the church also recognises training at an unspecified number of "recognised colleges" elsewhere.[1]