Kingsley College Australia

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Kingsley College was until 2008 a Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia school of theology located in Melbourne, Australia.

Its student body had always been largely non-Wesleyan Methodist, and without the students from other Christian denominations the school probably could not have survived as long as it did.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

History

The college was founded by President of the Australian Wesleyan Methodist Conference and editor of the Australian Wesleyan Kingsley Ridgway in 1948, and was (despite being in Melbourne) until 2008 a member institute of the Sydney College of Divinity.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn

It was originally known as the Wesleyan Methodist Bible College of Australia;Template:Sfn but in 1973 its name was changed to honour its founder upon his retirement.Template:Sfn It was funded initially from donations made by Wesleyan Methodist church members in North America, reported by Ridgway as being "in the neighbourhood of one dollar (six shillings) per member over the whole connexion".Template:Sfn Its first principal was professor Leo G. Cox, an American who was elected Conference President in 1948 after Ridgway.Template:Sfn

In January 2008 it merged with Tabor Victoria, with the majority of its staff and faculty and the whole of its library transferred to Tabor, with its original building and property scheduled to be sold.Template:SfnTemplate:Better source neededTemplate:SfnTemplate:Third-party inline What was left of Kingsley continues to provide Wesleyan Methodist ministerial and lay person training in Bible and theology through the Vocational Education Training sector.Template:SfnTemplate:Better source neededTemplate:SfnTemplate:Third-party inline

Principals

Principals of Kingsley College

Name	Years of Service
Dr Leo G. Cox	1949-1955
The Revd Robert Mattke	1956-1961
The Revd James Ridgway	1961-1966
The Revd Arthur Calhoun	1967-1969
The Revd Aubrey Carnell	1970-1971
The Revd Dr James Ridgway	1972-1984
The Revd Dr David Wilson	1985-2002
The Revd Lionel Rose	2003
The Revd Peter Dobson	2004-2010
The Revd Kevin Brown	2010 – present