List of Catholic seminaries

This is a list of Catholic seminaries in the world, including those that have been closed. According to the 2012 Pontifical Yearbook, the total number of candidates for the priesthood in the world was 118,990 at the end of the year 2010. These students were in 6,974 seminaries around the world: 3,194 diocesan seminaries and 3,780 religious seminaries.

Africa

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Benin

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Congo, Democratic Republic of

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Ghana

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Namibia

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Nigeria

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  • St. John Vianney Seminary, Barkin Ladi – Established in January 1958 by the late Right Rev. Dr. John Reddington for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jos.
  • Seat of Wisdom Seminary – Established in 1982; for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri
  • Seat of Wisdom Seminary (philosophy Campus), Ariam-Umuahia
  • Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu – A provincial seminary for the Onitsha ecclesiastical province, established in 1950.
  • St Joseph Major Seminary, Ikot Ekpene
  • St Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary, Makurdi
  • Pope John Paul II Major Seminary, Awka
  • SS Peter and Paul, Bodija, Ibadan
  • All Saints Seminary, Ekpoma
  • Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaduna
  • Claretian Institute of Philosophy, Nekede
  • Spiritan International school of Theology, Attakwu
  • Spiritan Institute of Philosophy, Isienu
  • St Augustine Seminary, Jos
  • Blessed Iwene Tansi Major Seminary, Onitsha
  • The National Missionary Seminary of St Paul, Gwagwalada Abuja
  • St Albert the Great Idowu Ofonron Abeokuta, Ogun State

South Africa (which included Eswatini, Lesotho and Botswana)

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  • St John Vianney Seminary, Pretoria (National Seminary)
  • St Francis Xavier Orientation Year Seminary (Cape Town)
  • Redemptoris Mater Seminary for training priests of the Neo-Catechumenal Way (Cape Town)
  • St Joseph's Theological Institute (SJTI), founded in 1943 by the Oblates
  • St Philip Neri collegium (Preparatory year seminary)
  • St Peter's Major Seminary, originally for indigenous priests, merged into St. John Vianney's in 2008
  • St. Paul’s Minor Seminary
  • St. Augustine Major Seminary, in Lesotho, established 1924
  • St. Charles Lwanga Minor Seminary, Botswana

Togo

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Uganda

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There are several Seminaries in Uganda divided into three; Junior, Minor and Major seminaries.

Major seminaries

  • St. Mbaaga's Major Seminary, Ggaba (Philosophy and Theology)
  • St. Mary's National Seminary, Ggaba (Theology)
  • St. Thomas Aquinas National Seminary, Katigondo (Philosophy)
  • Uganda Martyrs National Major Seminary, Alokolum (Philosophy)
  • St. Paul's National Seminary, Kinyamasika (Theology)

Minor and Junior Seminaries

Americas

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Argentina

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Argentina has 32 major seminaries.

Bolivia

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  • Seminario Mayor San luis, Cochabamba.

Brazil

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By the 'Organización de Seminarios Latinoamericanos' (OSLAM), there are 429 seminaries in Brazil. The following list is by leading Ecclesiastical Provinces.

Aparecida

Belém do Pará

Belo Horizonte

Brasília

Campinas

Cascavel

Curitiba

Fortaleza

Goiânia

Guarulhos

Mariana

Natal

Niteroi

Nova Friburgo

Olinda e Recife

Porto Alegre

São Paulo

São Salvador da Bahia

São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Vitória

Canada

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Alberta

British Columbia

Ontario

Quebec

Closed:

Chile

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Colombia

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Colombia has 50 major seminaries.

Cuba

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Dominican Republic

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Ecuador

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Mexico

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There are 66 seminaries in Mexico. This list is by main Ecclesiastical Provinces.

Acapulco

Antequera, Oaxaca

Chihuahua

Durango

Guadalajara

Hermosillo

Jalapa

México

Monterrey

Morelia

Puebla de los Angeles

San Luis Potosí

Tlalnepantla

Yucatán

Paraguay

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  • Seminario Mayor Nacional del Paraguay,[7] Asuncion

Peru

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Puerto Rico

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Trinidad and Tobago

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  • Regional Seminary of St John Vianney and the Ugandan Martyrs in Tunapuna, Trinidad – founded in 1943, became a regional seminary for the Antilles Episcopal Conference in 1970. Jamaican seminarians formerly at St. Michael's Theological College were moved to Trinidad in 1996.[8][9]

United States

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According to the 2010 Official Catholic Directory, as of 2009 there are 189 seminaries with 5,131 students in the United States; 3,319 diocesan seminarians and 1,812 religious seminarians. By the official 2011 statistics, there are 5,247 seminarians (3,394 diocesan and 1,853 religious) in the United States.

California

Colorado

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Florida

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Texas

Washington

Wisconsin

Uruguay

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Venezuela

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Asia/Pacific

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Australia

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New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory

Queensland

South Australia

  • St Francis Xavier Seminary, Adelaide – closed 2001.

Victoria and Tasmania

Western Australia

Bangladesh

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Dhaka

China

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Hong Kong

Macau

East Timor

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Fiji

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Guam

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India

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Indonesia

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  • St. Peter Canisius Minor Seminary, Mertoyudan, Magelang
  • Seminari Agung Santo Paulus, Keuskupan Agung Semarang, Yogyakarta
  • Seminari Menengah Wacana Bhakti, Kolese Gonzaga, Keuskupan Agung Jakarta, Jakarta
  • Seminari Menengah St. Yohanes Berkhmans Todabelu-Flores, Keuskupan Agung Ende, Flores
  • Seminari Menengah Stella Maris, Keuskupan Bogor, Bogor, Jawa Barat
  • Seminari Menengah Cadas Hikmat, Keuskupan Bandung, Bandung Jawa Barat
  • Seminari Tinggi Fermentum, Keuskupan Bandung, Bandung, Jawa Barat
  • Seminari Menengah Santo Paulus Palembang, Keuskupan Agung Palembang
  • Seminari Menengah Santo Petrus Aek Tolang, Keuskupan Sibolga
  • Seminari Menengah Christus Sacerdos Pematangsiantar, Keuskupan Agung Medan
  • Seminari Tinggi Santo Petrus Pematangsiantar, Keuskupan Agung Medan
  • Saint John Paul II Major Seminary, Archdiocese of Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • St. Peter Major Seminary, Flores[15][16]

Israel and Palestinian Territories

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Japan

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Kazakhstan

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Malaysia

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New Zealand

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Pakistan

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Philippines

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Solomon Islands

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  • Holy Name of Mary Seminary, Tenaru, Guadalcanal Province. Inter-diocesan seminary founded in 1995.[20]

Singapore

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  • St Francis Xavier Major Seminary,[21] – founded in 1983

South Korea

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At the end of the year 2011, there are 7 major seminaries in Korea; and the number of seminarians in these seven seminaries is 1,587 – from diocesan 1,317, religious & missionary 270.

  • College of Theology, Catholic University of Korea – founded in 1855, currently located on the Songsin campus of Seoul; 'Songsin' means Holy Spirit in Korean.
  • Department of Theology, Gwangju Catholic University,[22] – founded in 1962, second oldest in Korea
  • College of Theology, Catholic University of Daegu[23] – founded by the Archdiocese of Daegu
  • Department of Theology, Catholic University of Pusan[24] – also running the College of Nursing
  • Department of Theology, Daejeon Catholic University[25]
  • Department of Theology, Incheon Catholic University[26] – founded in 1995, also running the College of Religious Arts
  • Department of Theology, Suwon Catholic University[27] – founded in 1982

Taiwan

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Thailand

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There are numerous minor seminaries and one major seminary:

Vietnam

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There are 8 major seminaries with 1,480 students in Vietnam.

And some minor seminaries:

Europe

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Albania

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Austria

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Belarus

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Belgium

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No longer trains seminarians:

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Croatia

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Czech Republic

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France

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Closed:

Germany

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By main Ecclesiastical Provinces:

Berlin

Cologne

Freiburg im Breisgau

Hamburg

Munich und Freising

Paderborn

Other

Hungary

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Ireland

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The Catholic Church in Ireland encompasses the entire island of Ireland, including the distinct political entities of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. There are two active diocesan seminaries in Ireland:

The remaining diocesan seminaries are closed:

Religious congregations also had houses of formation in Ireland:

  • Franciscan Novitiate, Killarney, County Kerry. Built in 1860, students were then sent to St. Anthony's in Galway.[67]
  • St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin, the Dominicans moved their studium from St. Mary's Priory in Tallaght, in 2000, students complete their studies in Rome.[68]
  • St Anthony's College, Newcastle, Galway. Former Franciscan seminary, buildings now used by NUI Galway.
  • Belmont House, Stillorgan, Dublin. Novitiate of the Oblates, founded near Glenmary, near Delgany in County Wicklow, moved in 1863.
  • Belcamp Hall, Raheny, Dublin, was the juniorate of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
  • Bessborough House Oblates Our Lady's Scholasticate in Piltown, County Kilkenny, from 1941 to 1971. Building now used as Kildalton Agricultural College.[69]
  • Our Lady of Lourdes, Cahermoyle, Ardagh, County Limerick, Oblate junior novitiate
  • Moyne Park, Abbeyknocknoy, Ballyglunin, County Galway, in 1909 opened as a Camillian hospice,[70][71][72] a seminary for the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in 1936,[73][74] closed in the early 1970s.[75]
  • Dalgan House, Shrule, County Mayo.[76] Built in 1801, bought by the Duke of Bedford in 1853, a seminary for the Columbans from 1918 to 1941.[77] Now demolished.
  • St Columbans College, Dalgan Park, Navan, was the seminary of the Columbans after 1941.[77][78]
  • St Patrick's, Donamon Castle, County Roscommon. Novitiate of the Divine Word Missionaries, opened 1939, closed in 1980.[79][80]
  • Kilshane, County Tipperary. Novitiate of Holy Ghost Fathers (the Spiritians),[81] was purchased in August 1933 and opened as a Novitiate for both clerics and brothers.[82]
  • Holy Ghost Missionary College, Kimmage Manor, Dublin. Formation house of the Holy Ghost Fathers (the Spiritians) for those going on to Kilshane.[83]
  • Legion of Christ Novitiate, Leopardstown Road, Foxrock, Dublin. In April 1960, it opened in Bundoran, County Donegal. On 3 June 1962, it moved to Hazelbrook House, Malahide, to Foxrock in 1968 and closed in September 2011.[84][85]
  • Kinury, near Westport, County Mayo, was given to the Society of African Missions (SMA) in 1914 by Miss Sofia Crotty. It was used as a novitiate and closed in 1924.[86]
  • Cloghballymore House, Ballinderreen, Kilcolgan, County Galway, was a tower house, then a country estate. In 1906, Count Llewellyn Blake gave it to the Society of the African Missions. It was their novitiate from 1924 until the mid 1970s. Been a nursing home since 1981.[87][88]
  • Ballinafad Minor Seminary was also given by Count Llewellyn Blake to the Society of the African Missions, operated until 1975 and was linked to Cloghballymore House.
  • St Joseph's Seminary, Blackrock Rd, Cork. The original seminary of the Society of the African Missions, later transferred to Dromantine House.[89]
  • Dromantine House, Newry, County Down, was a seminary of the Society of the African Missions from 1926 until 1972.[90]
  • St Augustine's College (Loughan House), Blacklion, County Cavan. Novitiate of the White Fathers from September 1955 and closed in 1970.
  • The Abbey, Loughrea, County Galway. Since 1645, a Discalced Carmelites community, trained novices since 1664. In 1882, a new novitiate was constructed, and extended in 1934. The novitiate is closed, but a community remains.[91]
  • Castlemartyr, County Cork, in 1930, had a Discalced Carmelite juniorate. It closed in 1996 and is now a hotel.[92]
  • Loughrea, County Galway, contained a novitiate of the De La Salle Brothers, which was active into the 1980s.[91]
  • St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Tullamore. This was the novitiate of the Jesuits in Ireland until the move to Emo Court in 1930.[93]
  • St Mary's, Emo Court. Novitiate for the Society of Jesus in Ireland from 1930 to 1969.
  • Manresa House, Dollymount, Dublin. After Emo Court, it was novitiate of the Irish Jesuits from 1969 to 1991.
  • Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy formed out of the Jesuit Theology Faculty.
  • St Patrick's, Esker, Athenry, County Galway. Established on 18 August 1901 was the Redemptorist Irish Province major seminary until 1836. From 1948 until 1969 it was the novitiate. In 1971, it became a retreat house.
  • Cluain Mhuire, Galway, was a Redemptorist seminary, closed in the 1970s.[94] It is now the GMIT Art College.
  • Pallotine College Thurles, County Tipperary. Founded by the Pallotines in 1907, from 1909 to 1986 priests from the college studied at nearby St. Patrick's College, Thurles.
  • St Gabriel's, The Graan, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Novitiate of the Passionists, 1909–1976, is now a nursing home, with the community remaining.
  • Tobar Mhuire, Crossgar, County Down, (formerly Crossgar House). From 1950 until 1976, was the Passionist Juniorate, then a novitiate and a Retreat and Conference Centre as of February 2010.
  • St Paul's Retreat, Mount Argus, Dublin, was the Irish Passionist headquarters, and provided the final two years of formation for Passionist seminarians.
  • Tanagh, Cootehill, County Cavan. Former Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary novitiate and seminary, now an outdoor education centre, and religious community remain.[citation needed]
  • Mount St Marys, Milltown, Dublin. Seminary of the Marist Fathers. The site is now a Montessori College and the Irish Marist administrative headquarters.
  • Orlagh, Knocklyon, County Dublin. Opened as a novitiate for the Augustinians, was a student house until the late 1980s, when it became a retreat centre, closed in 2016[95]
  • Carmelite Friary, Kinsale, County Cork. Became a novitiate for the Irish Province of the Carmelites in 1917, moving to the existing Friary from Dublin in 1917. In 2003, due to dwindling numbers of novices, it was re-purposed as a Retreat and Spirituality Centre.[96]
  • Carmelite Centre, Gort Mhuire, Ballinteer, County Dublin. From 1949, Gort Mhuire was the novitiate and the theologate for the Carmelites, in 1968 Carmelites began studying theology in Milltown Park as the Institute was being set up there.[97] Now the Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland is based here.
  • St. Joseph's, Blackrock, was the seminary for the Vincentians, was founded in 1930, St. Kevins, House of Studies/Seminary, Glenart, Arklow, operated from 1948 to 1968, when students were transferred back to Blackrock in 1977, until the setting up of DePaul House, Celbridge operated from 1977 to 1988.
  • Myross Woods, Leap, County Cork, was the novitate of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Converted to a retreat centre in the 1970s, it closed in 2021.[98]
  • St. Patricks Missionary College – High Park, Kiltegan, County Wicklow, Saint Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions (Kiltegan Fathers), opened in 1932, students would take degrees from University College Cork, in 2015 transferred headquarters to Kenya.

Italy

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The list includes some seminaries by principal Ecclesiastical Provinces.

Benevento

Catania

Florence

Genoa

Lecce

Messina

Milan

Naples

Pisa

Rome

Salerno-Campagna-Acerno

Taranto

Torino

Venice

Latvia

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Lithuania

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Luxembourg

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Netherlands

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Many serve as residences for courses that take place elsewhere:

Norway

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Poland

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Portugal

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Romania

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Russia

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Slovakia

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Closed:

Slovenia

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Spain

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Spain has 77 seminaries.

Sweden

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Switzerland

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United Kingdom

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The current active major seminaries of the United Kingdom are in England.

England

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Scotland
Wales
  • St Mary's College, Aberystwyth, originally in Holywell, moved to Aberystwyth in 1936, closed in 1970, for Welsh-speaking training, run by the Carmelites

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