About The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) is a Southern Baptist seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the oldest of the six seminaries affiliated following the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The seminary was founded in 1859 at Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at first lodged on the campus of Furman University. After innate closed during the Civil War, it moved in 1877 to a newly built campus in downtown Louisville and forward-looking moved to its current location in the Crescent Hill neighborhood. For higher than fifty years Southern has been one of the world’s largest theological seminaries, with an FTE (full-time equivalent) enrollment of over 3,300 students in 2015.

Louisville (/ˈluːivɪl/ (listen), US: /ˈluːəvəl/ (listen) LOO-ə-vəl, locally /ˈlʊvəl/ (listen)) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal chair of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.

Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With handy Falls of the Ohio as the lonely major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the pact first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states.

Today, the city is known as the home of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky’s six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville’s main public notice airport, hosts UPS’s worldwide hub.

Since 2003, Louisville’s borders have been the similar as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The qualified name of this consolidated city-county dealing out is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the mix and renaming, the term “Jefferson County” continues to be used in some contexts in suggestion to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities external the “balance” which make in the works Louisville proper. The city’s sum consolidated population as of the 2019 census estimate was 766,757. However, the balance sum of 617,638 excludes other incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings.

The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana. As of 2019, the MSA had a population of 1,265,108, ranking 46th nationally.