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Anthony Cekada

Following his sacerdotal ordination, Cekada taught seminarians at St. Joseph's House of Studies, Armada, Michigan, and St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary

Seminarians from ten dioceses across the midwest, United States live at Bishop Simon Bruté Seminary and take classes at Marian University.

Croatian Province of the Society of Jesus

The Province also maintains residences in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ohrid, Macedonia where they provide religious education to seminarians in the local dioceses.

Exodians

It is also notable that among the 36 seminarians who were expelled from the seminary, four of them came from the Prelature of Ipil, in the western section of Mindanao Island who were sent by then Ipil Bishop Federico Escaler, SJ,who is now retired and residing in Manila.

Right after the expulsion, the then Ipil Bishop Escaler invited his seminarians to go back to the seminary life at Pastor Bonos Seminary in Zamboanga City,also of Western Mindanao.

Francis Sylvius

an edition with notes, of Binsfeld's "Enchiridion theologiae pastoralis", which had great success in Belgium and France, where it was the first manual of theology used by seminarians;

Joan Frances Gormley

In 1988 Gormley joined the faculty of Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she taught scripture to the seminarians.

John Paul II Minor Seminary

It was blessed and inaugurated by the Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, the Most Rev. Edward Joseph Adams, D.D., last September 4, 2010 in the presence of the Most Rev. Gabriel V. Reyes (Bishop of Antipolo), Most Rev. Francisco M. de Leon (Auxiliary Bishop of Antipolo), priests, men & women religious, seminarians and their parents, and lay leaders of the Diocese of Antipolo.

Maulbronn Monastery

In 1692, the seminarians were removed to safety when Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac, torched the school, which remained closed for a decade.

Mungret College

It was rented by the Bishop of Limerick for his seminarians for the scholastic year of 1880-1881 and was then vacated.

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

In 2005, the Task Force protested against the Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders, which forbids the ordination of Catholic homosexual seminarians.

Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Imus

Hoping that prayers could help, Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle who was the parish priest of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pilar in Imus City asked Bobit's co-seminarians to dance during the Karakol for that year, with only one petition in mind- to ask Nana Pilar's intercession for Bobit's healing.

O Sodales

The tune of the hymn is reputed to have been composed by seminarians fleeing before the armies of Napoleon in the early 19th century.

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, in Denton, Nebraska, USA (Diocese of Lincoln), was established in 1994 and serves English-speaking seminarians.

Rachol Seminary

Agnelo Gustavo Adolfo de Souza, sfx, (popularly called Padr. Agnel) who underwent his priestly formation at was ordained at the Rachol Seminary, later joined the Society of Pilar, spent the last 10 years of his life as Confessor and Spiritual Director of the seminarians at Rachol, and breathed his last in his room in the Seminary.

Solus Christi Brothers

Seminarians are formed through Solus Christi Seminary whose formation program is affiliated with our jurisdiction's major seminary, the International Seminary of Saint Basil, Quito, Ecuador.

Taiyuan Massacre

His companions of martrydom were four other Franciscan friars, seven Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, 11 Chinese members of the Third Order of St. Francis- of whom six were seminarians- and three Chinese employees of the franciscan mission of Taiyuan in the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Shansi.

The Myth of Hitler's Pope

:"anti-papal polemics of ex-seminarians like Garry Wills and John Cornwell (author of Hitler's Pope), of ex-priests like James Carroll, and or other lapsed or angry liberal Catholics exploit the tragedy of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to foster their own political agenda of forcing changes on the Catholic Church today."


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