UBS started as a Marathi-medium Bible School opened by the Free Methodist Church and was finally established in 1953 and initially located in Yavatmal, before relocating to Pune in 1983.

[3] It is the largest seminary under Wesleyan-Holiness movement in India.

The seminary is famous for contextualising theology to Indian post-colonial context and in promoting New Perspective on Paul, Evangelical feminism or egalitarianism, Dalit theology and progressive Wesleyan viewpoint.

Union Biblical Seminary is founded by Union Biblical Seminary Association, a trust formed by various evangelical denominations in India.

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