List of Catholic seminaries: Difference between revisions

* [[St. Anthony Seminary & College]] ([[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]]) – RunWas run by the [[Franciscan]] Friars; opened in 1901 but closed in 1987.

* St.Mary's Minor Seminary, Thanjavur.
*Good Shepherd Seminary, Coimbatore
*Little Flower Seminary, Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Aluva – 683101, Kerala, India (Run by CST Fathers, 1961)

*[[St Joseph Pontifical Seminary CarmalagiriCarmelgiri, AluvaAlwaye, Latin]]

* [[Taiwan Catholic Regional Seminary]] – Major seminary in [[New Taipei City]], founded in 1994, merged from St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Taipei (founded in 1965) and St. Pius X Seminary, Tainan (founded in 1962)

* [[:th:วิทยาลัยแสงธรรม|Saengtham College]],<ref>[http://www.saengtham.ac.th/ Saengtham College], retrieved 9 May 2020</ref> or Lux Mundi Major Seminary,<ref>Antonio Anup Gonsalves, [https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/32181/in-thailand-catholic-seminary-marks-eight-vibrant-decades-59931 In Thailand, Catholic seminary marks eight vibrant decades], [[Catholic News Agency]], 17 June 2015, retrieved 9 May 2020</ref> in [[Sam Phran District]], [[Nakhon Pathom Province]].

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:

* [[Redemptoris Mater (seminary)|Redemptoris Mater]] Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary, [[Dundalk]]. Seminary for the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Armagh|Archdiocese of Armagh]] run under the auspices of the [[Neocatechumenal Way]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.redmatarmagh.org/seminary-redemptoris-mater/ | title=Redemptoris Mater Seminary }}</ref> In 2017 it was training 16 seminarians from eight countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etnow.com/news/2017/5/mipro-helps-spread-the-word-at-redemptoris-mater-seminary-dundalk |title=MIPRO helps spread the word at Redemptoris Mater Seminary, Dundalk |website=Etnow.com |date= 23 May 2017 |access-date= 21 August 2018}}</ref> Students travel to Maynooth to study philosophy and theology.

* [[St. Finian's College]] was founded in [[Navan]] as the Meath Diocesan College in 1802, moved to [[Mullingar]] in 1908, It is now a co-ed secondary school.

* [[St. John's College, Waterford|St. John's College]], [[Waterford]], founded in 1807, was exclusively for seminarians of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore|Waterford and Lismore Diocese]] from 1873 until June 1999.<ref>{{cite book|title=Irish priests in the United States: a vanishing subculture|first=William L. |last=Smith|page=33|publisher=UPA|date=14 June 2004|isbn= 978-0761828266}}</ref>

* [[St Kieran's College]], [[Kilkenny]], was founded in 1782, priestly formation was discontinued in 1994.<ref name="Google Books">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0akee6oGkq0C&q=irish+seminaries+to+close&pg=PA25|title=Irish Priests in the United States|work=google.ie|isbn=9780761828266|last1=Smith|first1=William L.|year=2004|publisher=University Press of America }}</ref>

* Franciscan Novitiate, [[Killarney]], Co. [[County Kerry|Kerry]]. Built in 1860, students were then sent to St. Anthony's in Galway.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irlfunds.org/your_money_at_work/projects_kdys.asp |title=The Ireland Funds – Home |website=Irlfunds.org |access-date=2016-12-04}}</ref>

* [[St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin]], the Dominicans moved their [[Studium generale|studium]] from [[The Priory Institute|St. Mary's Priory]] in [[Tallaght]], in 2000, students complete their studies in Rome.<ref>[https://saintsavioursdublin.ie/studium/ Studium] St. Saviours Dublin</ref>

* Belmont House, [[Stillorgan]], Dublin. Novitiate of the [[Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate|Oblates]], founded near Glenmary, near [[Delgany]] in Co.County Wicklow, moved in 1863.

* [[Belcamp College|Belcamp Hall]], [[Raheny]], Dublin, was the juniorate of the [[Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate]].

* [[Bessborough House]] Oblates Our Lady's Scholasticate in [[Piltown]], Co.County Kilkenny, from 1941 to 1971. Building now used as Kildalton Agricultural College.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~templeorum/historyone.htm | title=Templeorum History }}</ref>

* Our Lady of Lourdes, Cahermoyle, [[Ardagh, Co.County Limerick]], Oblate junior novitiate

* Moyne Park, Abbeyknocknoy, [[Ballyglunin]], Co.County Galway, in 1909 opened as a [[Camillians|Camillian]] hospice,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/the-nave-child-who-became-mr-no-26858340.html|title=The naïve child who became Mr No|work=Irish Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irelandoldnews.com/Galway/1909/JUL.html|title=Ireland Old News|work=irelandoldnews.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15079d.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tuam|work=newadvent.org}}</ref> a seminary for the [[Missionaries of the Sacred Heart]] in 1936,<ref>http://www.mscireland.com/news-mainmenu-99/229-death-of-fr-jack-shanahan-msc {{dead link|date=December 2016}}</ref><ref>http://www.mscireland.com/news-mainmenu-99/249-death-of-fr-jeremiah-murphy-msc {{dead link|date=December 2016}}</ref> closed in the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=27679072|title=The Hierarchy and Religious|first=Michael V.|last=Smyth|journal=The Furrow|year=1970|volume=21|issue=4|pages=216–226}}</ref>

* Dalgan House, [[Shrule]], Co.County Mayo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=463|title=Dalgan|work=landedestates.ie}}</ref> Built in 1801, bought by the [[Duke of Bedford]] in 1853, a seminary for the [[Missionary Society of Saint Columban|Columbans]] from 1918 to 1941.<ref name="Columban Sisters">{{cite web|url=http://www.columbansisters.org/areas/ireland/maryclunerip.htm |title=Columban Sisters |access-date=2011-07-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326192419/http://www.columbansisters.org/areas/ireland/maryclunerip.htm |archive-date=26 March 2012}}</ref> Now demolished.

* [[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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legionariesofchrist.org/eng/articulos/categoria.phtml?lc%3Dse-355_ca-941_ci-923 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-07-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818160135/http://www.legionariesofchrist.org/eng/articulos/categoria.phtml?lc=se-355_ca-941_ci-923 |archive-date=18 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0720/1224301010257.html|title=Legionaries to close novitiate over lack of vocations|date=20 July 2011|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref>

* Kinury, near [[Westport, County Mayo|Westport]], Co. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sma.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32&Itemid=71|title=Welcome to the Society of African Missions website|work=sma.ie}}</ref>

*Cloghballymore House, Ballinderreen, [[Kilcolgan]], Co.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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advertiser.ie/mayo/article/2072|title=Advertiser.ie – Ballinafad College celebrates its centenary|work=Mayo Advertiser}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/property-show.jsp?id=649|title=Cloghballymore|work=landedestates.ie}}</ref>

* [[Dromantine House]], [[Newry]], Co.County Down, was a seminary of the Society of the African Missions from 1926 until 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dromantineconference.com/history.php|title=Dromantine Retreat And Conference Centre – History of Dromantine|work=dromantineconference.com}}</ref>

* St Augustine's College ([[Loughan House]]), [[Blacklion]], Co.County Cavan. Novitiate of the [[White Fathers]] from September 1955 and closed in 1970.

* The Abbey, [[Loughrea]], Co.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.<ref name="discalcedcarmelites.ie">{{cite web|url=http://www.discalcedcarmelites.ie/index.php/the-abbey/281.html |title=OCD – the Carmelite Abbey Loughrea 1645 – 1983 |access-date=2011-08-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315235517/http://www.discalcedcarmelites.ie/index.php/the-abbey/281.html |archive-date=15 March 2012}}</ref>

* [[Castlemartyr]], Co.County Cork, in 1930, had a Discalced Carmelite juniorate. It closed in 1996 and is now a hotel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://carmelitecollege.com/about.html |title=CarmeliteCollege.com |access-date=2011-08-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224203352/http://carmelitecollege.com/about.html |archive-date=24 February 2011}}</ref>

*[[Loughrea]], Co.County Galway, contained a novitiate of the [[Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools|De La Salle]] Brothers, which was active into the 1980s.<ref name="discalcedcarmelites.ie"/>

* St Patrick's, Esker, [[Athenry]], Co.County Galway. Established on 18 August 1901 was the [[Redemptorists|Redemptorist]] Irish Province major seminary until 1836. From 1948 until 1969 it was the novitiate. In 1971, it became a retreat house.

* Pallotine College Thurles, Co.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]], Co.County Fermanagh. Novitiate of the Passionists, 1909–1976, is now a nursing home, with the community remaining.

* Tobar Mhuire, [[Crossgar]], Co.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.

* Tanagh, [[Cootehill]], Co.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|date=December 2015}}

*Orlagh, [[Knocklyon]], Co.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<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/augustinians-to-sell-orlagh-retreat-in-rathfarnham-for-2-5-million-1.2642262|title=Augustinians to sell Orlagh retreat in Rathfarnham for €2.5 million|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2016-12-04}}</ref>

* Carmelite Friary, [[Kinsale]], Co.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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.carmelites.ie/pdf/KinsaleHistory.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 November 2017 |archive-date=13 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213011055/http://carmelites.ie/PDF/KinsaleHistory.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* Carmelite Centre, Gort Mhuire, [[Ballinteer]], Co.County Dublin, Ireland. 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.<ref>[http://www.carmelites.ie/gortmuire2.html A History of Gort Mhuire (1944–1994) by Peter O'Dwyer OCarm, www.carmelites.ie, 1994.]</ref> Now the [[Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland]] is based here.

*St. Joseph's, [[Blackrock, Dublin|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, CoCounty Cork]], was the novitate of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Converted to a retreat centre in the 1970s, it closed in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.misacor.org.au/item/3580-news-from-msc-ireland-the-closing-of-myross-wood-leap | title=News from MSC Ireland: The closing of Myross Wood, Leap }}</ref>

*St. Patricks Missionary College – High Park, [[Kiltegan]], Co.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.

* Kňazský seminár sv. Františka Xaverského in [[Banská BystricaBadín]] – for the [[Diocese of Banská Bystrica]], until 2019, seminarians moved to Nitra.<ref name="sme-konci">{{cite news |title=Kňazský seminár v Badíne končí, bohoslovcov je málo a náklady sú vysoké |work=[[SME (newspaper)|SME]] |place=Bratislava |publisher=Petit Press |date=2019-03-24 |url=https://mybystrica.sme.sk/c/22082526/knazsky-seminar-v-badine-ukonci-po-26-rokoch-svoju-cinnost.html |access-date=2019-03-31 |issn=1335-4418}}</ref>

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