Episcopal boys' seminary

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Ottanium in Bamberg, 1970s

As a minor seminary , minor seminary or Episcopal seminary study were referred to a boarding school of the Catholic Church for boys who have a desire to priests to be.

history

At the Council of Trent (1545–1563) it was decided that

“Every cathedral, metropolitan or even higher church [...] a certain number of boys from the city and the diocese [...] in a college [...] to be obliged to educate them religiously and to train them in ecclesiastical sciences shall. " (Sess. XXIII c. 18)

The boys' seminar was led by a rector together with the vice rector; a spiritual was responsible for shaping religious life. Educational support for the pupils was provided by prefects of studies. The boys usually entered when they were 10 years old. They stayed in the minor seminary until graduation or until High School . After that, they had the opportunity to enter a seminary .

In the German-speaking area, the first episcopal boys' seminars were founded just a few decades after the Council of Trent; At the same time, Jesuit schools were soon founded. Since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, the boys' seminars have increasingly been opened to all Catholic students and serve a general Christian education and no longer specifically the introduction to the priesthood. In many cases they are now co-educational private schools with an attached boarding school.

The Catholic Church Law ( CIC of 1983) promotes the establishment of the "small seminars", but stipulates that the general university entrance qualification must be acquired in any case ; a "high school diploma" for theologians is excluded:

Can. 234 - § l. Where small seminars or other institutions of this type exist, they must be maintained and promoted; In these, in order to promote vocations, it must be ensured that a special religious education is imparted in connection with an education in the humanities and natural sciences; wherever the diocesan bishop deems it useful, he has to arrange for a small seminary or a similar institution to be established.
§ 2. Unless circumstances suggest otherwise in certain cases, those young people who contemplate approaching the priesthood are to be given the humanities and natural sciences training to prepare young people for university studies in the respective area become.

List of current and former boys' seminars

Boys' seminars in Germany

Stained glass window in the Liborianum, Paderborn. Motto: We are growing.
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
North Rhine-Westphalia

Boys' seminars in Austria

Boys' seminars in South Tyrol-Trentino (Italy)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Historical Lexicon Bavaria: Episcopal boys' seminars
  2. ↑ Volker Laube: The Archbishop's Study Seminar St. Michael in Traunstein and its archive (= writings of the archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising 11). Regensburg 2006.
  3. ↑ Xaver Arbesmeier: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Episcopal study seminar. Straubing, July 1985.
  4. ↑ Joseph Funk (ed.): The Episcopal Boys' Seminar St. Joseph in Dillingen. Anniversary commemorative publication, Dillingen 1912.
  5. ↑ Episcopal study seminar Weiden in the Upper Palatinate 1955-1989. Chronicle of memories of 34 years of Weiden seminar published to all former students on the occasion of the closing of the seminar on August 31, 1989 by the directorate of the Weiden Episcopal Study Seminar. Willows 1989.
  6. ^ Dionys Asenkerschbaumer, Ludger Trost, Josef Fischer: Holy Spirit Burghausen - Spital - Hospital - St. Altmann Seminar - House of Encounters . Burghausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039565-9 .
  7. ↑ Christian Four Acker: The Episcopal Studienseminar St. Wolfgang in Regensburg. Highlights of the history of the Obermünster - Westmünster boys' seminar. Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-930480-70-0 .