Suppogu Joseph (born 1 January 1939)[3] is a Golden jubilee Pastor of the Protestant Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches with major contribution to New Testament scholarship with reference to Lukan literature.

S. Joseph's companions at the College included G. Babu Rao,[12] James Massey,[12] D. K. Mohanty[12] who were in the graduate section.

S. Joseph as a Spiritual Formator moulded the lives of generations of students creating interest in theological academic disciplines and the yearning to learn more in a systematic manner.

During the tenure of Suppogu Joseph as Principal, faculty lectures were initiated together with two of his colleagues, the Hamburg-educated New Testament Scholar Klaus Schafer[26] and the Old Testament Scholar G. Babu Rao[27] [28] and the three of them[1] were able to create interest among other faculty members to write scholarly papers[1] which were reviewed and published under the title Reflections on Theology Today: Papers presented by Faculty of Andhra Christian Theological College, Secunderabad, India during the academic year 1988-89 on Theology and the Mission of the Church.

In early 1990, S. Joseph led the Protestant Regional Theologiate in its Silver Jubilee Celebrations after the founding of the College in 1964 at Rajahmundry.

The Silver Jubilee of the near-ecumenical initiative that resulted in the founding of the College marked a good number of footfall of the alumni over a period of 5 days during 17 to 21 January 1990 in the premises of the College in Secunderabad where Bible Studies and Reminiscences were held every day during the Silver Jubilee Week.

In 1992, S. Joseph was a recipient of residency at the Overseas Ministries Study Centre in New Haven, Connecticut,[31] where he spent time on learning in a missional setting of diverse cultures.

Monsignor Gali Bali, an Old Testament Scholar and Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guntur reveals that the table fellowship of Jesus has great significance in everyday human life especially as the Church seeks to see people with the eyes of Christ himself where Gali Bali invokes Redemptor Hominis authored by Pope John Paul II.

Delving further into the Lucan material, S. Joseph's second book entitled Adaptation of the Gospel Tradition in Luke looks at the possibilities of Inculturation[10] especially to the Indian context.

By analysing various examples in the Third Gospel, it tries to determine the extent of the various modifications Luke introduced in his source materials and pre-Lukan traditions.