Faculty & Staff

Muriel Orevilio Montenegro
Dean
Assistant Professor

Academia, Erelyn R.
Secretary

Lasta, Eusebel
Channon Hall Chaplain

Faller, Arnel
Officer-in-Charge, DS Village

Regencia, Larry
Manager, Molave Cottage

Zia, Eleanor L.
Guidance Counselor

Trupa, Eric
Utility Person

Regular Status
Capulong, Noriel C. – Professor
Aguilan, Victor – Asst. Prof.
Montenegro, Muriel Orevillo – Asst. Prof.
Robin, Lope – Asst. Prof.
Marigza, Reuel Norman - Instructor
Faller, Jeaneth Harris – Asst. Prof.
Nalam, Jean Cuanan – Asst. Prof.
Mendoza, Magnolia Nova - Instructor

Adjuncts (T-5)
T. Valentino Sitoy Jr. – Adjunct-instructional
Benito Dominguez - Adjunct-instructional
Jane Ella P. Montenegro - Adjunct-   instructional
Lucio Mutia, - Adjunct-instructional
Erme R. Camba - Adjunct-instructional
Solomon Apla-on -Adjunct-instructional

Mission Co-Worker
Palm, Carlton - Support Staff
Sihombing, Batara – Visiting Prof.

Volunteer Status
Sillero, Hope Cerose  

Part-Time
Villarmea, Karl James E.  
Bagaboyboy, Esther D.

 

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Admission Requirements

The Divinity School requires incoming students to have a National Collegiate Entrance Examination (NCEE) rating of at least 55 percentile, with verbal ability of at least 75 percentile. Applicants with verbal ability rated below 75 percentile are required to take English 1.

Recent high school graduates must have an average rating of 80% or better.

Foreign students are required to pass an English language proficiency test.
The prospective student's decision should ordinarily start at the local church level, through a challenge to enter the seminary by either the church pastors, lay leaders, families, or even strictly personal initiative.

The prospect must have a good leadership potential and be actively involved in the activities of the local church, especially of the CYF, so that s/he may feel the challenge to go into full-time ministry.

S/He must have evidence of a basic commitment to ministry. (These qualities are to be considered by the church at the time of endorsing the student).

S/He will then be endorsed to the conference and the conference will prove the arrangements and then will assign the student to a local church for apprenticeship. (Apprenticeship or a one year exposure to the life of ministry in the church). The conferences will certainly satisfactory completion of the apprenticeship.

The conference's endorsement of the students will be forwarded to the office of the bishop for final approval. The bishop scrutinizes the endorsement form of the student to see to it that all elements are in proper form and in order, including the adequacy of the list of pledgers.

When the student comes to the Divinity School and presents all the endorsement papers, s/he is assigned to an adviser who examines all the academic records, endorsement forms, and the pledges for financial support.

The D.S. faculty reserves the right to make the final decision as to the admission of the student.

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Course Offering

Undergraduate
Bachelor of Theology
Bachelor of Ministry [Off-campus]

Graduate
Master of Divinity
Master of Ministry [Off-campus]
Master of Theology
Doctor of Theology in Biblical Studies
Doctor of Theology in Christian Ethics
Doctor of Theology in Systematic Theology

                  


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History

Dr. Frank Laubach of the American Board Mission in Mindanao was the man responsible for what is now SUDS. In 1918, Laubach proposed to the Presbyterian Mission a joint congregationalist-Presbyterian training school for Visayan-Speaking Candidates for the ministry, to be attached to Silliman Institute (Silliman University's former name) in Dumaguete City.

In June 1921, the Silliman Bible School was opened. The succeeding years witnessed the gradual integration of the Bible School and the Institute which became Silliman University in 1938. In 1935, the school was renamed College of Theology program and the three- year Deaconess Diploma course. in 1962, when the college moved to its present campus location, a four-year graduate Bachelor of Divinity Program and a four-year Double Major Programs were introduced.

When the first Bachelor of Divinity class graduated in 1965, it was felt that the name College of Theology was no longer appropriate for the institution. Thus, in keeping with the trend in similar school where in the world, the College of Theology was renamed the Divinity School of Silliman University in 1966. It was on that same year that the Divinity School became a participating institution in the newly established Southeast Graduate School of Theology authorizing to start the Masters Degree and the doctorate degree in Theology. The school's Master of Divinity Program is universally accepted as the standard theological training program for the Protestant Ministry.

 

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