List of Eastern Catholic seminaries explained

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)Collegio dei Maroniti (1584, reopened in 2000) in Rome

Lebanon

• (Maronite) Seminary of St. Antoine in Lebanon
• (Maronite) Maronite Patriarchal Seminary at Ghazir
• The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik http://www.usek.edu.lb/, Lebanon provides advanced theological education for Maronite
• (Syriac) Al-Charfet Patriarchal Seminary http://www.syriaccatholic.org/AlCharfetPatriarchalSeminary.aspx in Lebanon

India

• (Syro-Malankara) St. Mary’s Malankara Major Seminary (1983) at Trivandrum

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 http://www.majorseminary.org/ 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^[1]

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition

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) 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 Stamfordhttp://www.stbasilcollegesem.net/
• (Ukrainian) Saint Josaphat Seminary, Washington, DC

Ukraine

• Ukrainian Catholic Universityhttp://www.ucu.edu.ua/ 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

External links

• Syro-Malankara Seminaries and Institutions
• Syro-Malabar Seminaries
• Pontifical Oriental Institutehttp://www.pontificalorientalinstitute.com/

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Seminary of Mar Abba the Great . 2009-12-03 . 2014-02-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140227221427/http://www.marabba.org/ . dead .