List of Eastern Catholic seminaries

This is list of Eastern Catholic seminaries in the world. They prepare candidates for the priesthood.

Alexandrian liturgical tradition

Egypt

• (Coptic) St. Leo’s Patriarchal Seminary in Maadi (1953), a suburb of Cairo

Eritrea

• (Eritrean) Seminary in Asmara, Eritrea
• (Eritrean) Seminary in Keren, Eritrea

Ethiopia

• (Ethiopian) Capuchin Franciscan Institute of Philosophy and Theology in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• (Ethiopian) Seminary in Adigrat, Ethiopia

Italy

• (Ethiopian) Pontifical Ethiopian College in Rome

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syriac) liturgical tradition

Italy

• (Maronite) Pontifical Maronite College (1584, reopened in 2001) in Rome

Lebanon

• (Maronite) Seminary of St. Antoine in Lebanon
• (Maronite) Maronite Patriarchal Seminary at Ghazir
• The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik , Lebanon provides advanced theological education for Maronite
• (Syriac) Al-Charfet Patriarchal Seminary in Lebanon

India

• (Syro-Malankara) St. Mary’s Malankara Major Seminary (1983) at Trivandrum
• (Syro-Malankara) Gurusannidhi Seminary at Muvattupuzha ^[1]
• (Syro-Malankara) Infant Mary Seminary at Thiruvalla
• (Syro-Malankara) Saint Thomas Seminary at Pathanamthitta
• (Syro-Malankara) Mar Ivanios Seminary at Mavelikkara
• (Syro-Malankara) Saint Aloysius Seminary at Trivandrum
• (Syro-Malankara) Snehadeepam Seminary at Parassala ^[2]
• (Syro-Malankara) Saint Thomas Seminary at Sultan Bathery
• (Syro-Malankara) Saint Ephrem Seminary at Elavuvilai, Kanyakumari
• (Syro-Malankara) San Jos Seminary at Panjala, Puthur ^[3]
• (Syro-Malankara) Nirmal Hriday Seminary at Khadki, Pune ^[4]

North Lebanon

• (Maronite) diocesan seminary at Karm Sadde, near Tripoli

United States

• (Maronite) Our Lady of Lebanon Seminary in Washington, D.C.

Armenian liturgical tradition

Armenia

• Holy Archangels Junior Seminary, Gyumri

Italy

• Collegio Armeno in Rome

Lebanon

• Bzoummar Seminary in Bzoummar
• Mechitarist Fathers Seminary in Bikfaya

Chaldean or East Syriac liturgical tradition

India

• Malpan Seminary with University status in Kottapuram/ Pallipuram Established by Patriarch of Church of The East in AD 450 for Malabar, later seminary was shifted to Mananam and dissolved in St.Joseph's Seminary of Syro - Malabar Church CMI fathers
• Syro-Malabar St. Joseph's Pontifical Seminary (Mangalapuzha Seminary) in Mangalapuzha, Aluva
• Syro-Malabar St. Thomas Apostolic Seminary in Vadavathoor
• Syro-Malabar Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kunnoth, Tellicherry
• Syro-Malabar St. Ephrem Major Seminary for Missions, Satna
• Syro-Malabar Mary Matha Major Seminary, Thrissur

Iraq

• (Chaldean) St. Peter Seminary for Chaldean Patriarchate in Iraq. http://chaldeanseminary.com/

United States

• (Chaldean) The Seminary of Mar Abba the Great in San Diego ^[5]

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition

Austria

• ITI Catholic University

Brazil

• (Ukrainian) Greek Catholic Seminary in Curitiba

Canada

• (Ukrainian) Holy Spirit Seminary of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Edmonton, Alberta
• (Ukrainian) Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies of St. Michael's College, Toronto, Ontario

Croatia

• Greek Catholic Seminary in Zagreb (1681)

Germany

• Collegium Orientale in Eichstätt

Hungary

• Saint Athanasius Greek Catholic College of Theology and Seminary in Nyíregyháza

Palestine

• (Melkite) St. Anne’s Seminary in Jerusalem, under the direction of the White Fathers (Missionaries of Africa), closed
• (Melkite) Holy Savior Seminary in Beit Sahour, Palestine, for dioceses in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine

Italy

• Ukrainian Pontifical College of Saint Josaphat (1897)
• Pontifical Ukrainian College of the Protection of our Lady in Rome (closed)
• Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius (Pontificio Collegio Greco) in Rome
• Collegium Russicum (Pontificio Collegio Russo) (1929) in Rome
• Romanian Pontifical College (“Pio Romeno”) in Rome
• Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome

Lebanon

• (Melkite) Patriarchal Seminary of St. Anne in Raboueh, Antelias, Lebanon

Romania

• Greek Catholic Theological Faculty at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca

Slovakia

• (Slovak) Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Pavol Peter Gojdič in Prešov

United States

• (Ruthenian/Melkite) Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius of (Ruthenian) Byzantine Catholic Church Pittsburgh, PA
• (Ukrainian) St. Basil College Seminary, of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford
• (Ukrainian) Saint Josaphat Seminary, Washington, DC

Ukraine

• Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv
• Holy Spirit Seminary of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Lviv
• Greek Catholic Seminary in Uzhhorod (1995)
• Seminary of Blessed Martyrs Severyn, Yakym and Vitalij of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in Drohobych
• Ivano-Frankivsk Theological Academy of Greek-Catholic Church
• Greek Catholic Seminary in Ternopil
• Kyiv Theological Seminary of the Three Holy Hierarchs

See also

• List of Catholic seminaries

References

1. "Gurusannidhi Seminary". Muvattupuzha Diocese. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
2. "Seminary". Diocese of Prassala. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
3. "Welcome Seminary". Diocese of Puthur. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
4. "Nirmal Hriday Minor Seminary". NHM Seminary. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
5. "The Seminary of Mar Abba the Great". Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2009-12-03.

External links

• Syro-Malankara Seminaries and Institutions
• Syro-Malabar Seminaries
• Pontifical Oriental Institute