It is located in the rural town of Kothavalasa in the Vizianagaram District in Andhra Pradesh, India.

[3] but, from 1999, it began offering a three-year course[3] in philosophy to enable its students to simultaneously pursue the secular graduate degrees of Bachelor of Arts (B.

St. John's Regional Seminary[5] was founded in 1965[6] in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad to train Priests for the Catholic Church in Andhra Pradesh.

[7] The theologiate was retained in Hyderabad while the philosophate was moved to Kothavalasa in the northern circars of Andhra Pradesh.

[8] Admission is for Catholic pupils who are eligible to pursue priestly studies and who come from any of the ten Catholic dioceses and two archdioceses in Andhra Pradesh as well as any religious Congregation willing to send their students for Priestly formation.