Roger Gaikwad

Roger Gaikwad (born 13 February 1953) was General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in India (comprising Protestant and Orthodox Church Societies in India) and has been in office from 2010

Gaikwad also served as a Senator of the Senate of Serampore College (University), the nation's first University representing the Presbyterian Church.

Studies After Gaikwad's graduate studies at the Wilson College, Mumbai, as a Methodist student from where he obtained a Bachelor of Divinity degree awarded by the Senate of Serampore College (University) after his three-year course from 1974–1977. During Gaikwad's stint at the Aizawl Theological College, Aizawl, he went on study leave and enrolled at the North India Institute for Post Graduate Theological Studies, then under the Principalship of Joshua Russell Chandran, where he worked on his dissertation entitled Karma and Transmigration in Modern Hinduism: An evaluation of the interpretation of the concepts of the thought of M. K. Gandhi, Aurobindo and S. Radhakrishnan.

For doctoral studies, Gaikwad joined the South Asia Theological Research Institute where he researched and worked out a dissertation entitled Major Issues in Dialogical Pluralism for Inter-relationship. after which the Senate of Serampore College (University) under the Registrarship of D. S. Satyaranjan awarded him a Doctor of Theology degree in 1995.

Ecclesiastical ministry Gaikwad was a Teacher at the Aizawl Theological College, Aizawl from 1978 through 2010. From 2002 2002, Forces of communalism in India 2002, Issues in Christian Relationships with People of Other Faiths in Asia 2004, Diversified Theological Education, 2006, Some stances of Christians on integrating peace concerns in our lives 2006, The Jubilee - an Alternative to Globalisation - (Luke 4:16-21 and Leviticus 25) 2008, The Extension Programme of the Senate of Serampore College

Honorary commitments Gaikwad was Chairperson of the World Student Christian Federation, Asia Pacific Region from 2005 through 2008. In fact Gaikwad had already been Chairperson of the Student Christian Movement of India during the terms 1996–2001 and again 2003–2005. Bangalore, Council of Management of the Christian Literature Society, Chennai, Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad.