3-534: 9°43′45″N 79°56′52″E / 9.7293°N 79.9479°E / 9.7293; 79.9479 The Batticotta Seminary was an educational institute founded by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)'s American Ceylon Mission at Vaddukodai , in the Jaffna Peninsula north Sri Lanka in 1823. It was founded as part of the medical mission of John Scudder, Sr . and
6-548: The country before or after. It was closed in 1855 under the leadership of E. P. Hastings. The reason for such a decision being that it was not successful in the mission of its founding namely, conversion of Hindus to Christianity . The seminary was reopened in 1871 by alumni as Jaffna College with EP Hastings as the first principal. This seminary -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Too Many Requests If you report this error to
9-602: Was subsequently led by Nathan Ward . In 1846 the mission experienced a significant cholera outbreak. Emerson Tennent judged the Batticotta Seminary equal in rank with many European universities. The late Sabapathy Kulendran , the first bishop of the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI) observed that the seminary brought about a tremendous upsurge the like of which has never been seen in
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