Collegium Borromaeum Münster

Muenster seminary
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Seminar type	Clerical seminary
address	Domplatz 8 48143 Münster
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
country	Germany
carrier	Diocese of Münster
founding year	1854
Rain	Hartmut Niehues
Sub-rain	Fabian Tilling
Spiritual	Matthäus Niesmann, Klaus Kleffner
Website URL	www.priesterseminar-muenster.de

The Borromaeum Münster seminary is the training center of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster for priest candidates .

history

The Collegium Borromaeum in Münster was founded in 1854. Friedrich Michelis became the first rector . In the course of the Kulturkampf in 1876, it was closed by order of the state.

The current building was erected between 1913 and 1915. It was heavily occupied in the 1920s and 1930s. Around 1900, 50–60 seminarians entered annually; In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the number of admissions rose to over 80 per year, finally to 110, so that applicants had to be turned away.

The Borromaeum was largely destroyed by the bombing of the Second World War .

education

The priestly formation takes place in addition to the study of Catholic theology and aims to ensure areas of priestly formation that are not the subject of scientific theology.

In the 2016/2017 winter semester, the house has 8 propaedeutics , 17 students, several interns in the parishes of the diocese and 3 deacons in the parish year, who are trained and accompanied by a rain , a sub- rain and two spirituals .

Several students from other subjects have also been living in the Borromaeum since 2014, and since 2015 there have also been eight refugees - mainly from Syria.

In 2019 five new priests were consecrated in Münster Cathedral.

Candidates for priests from the Diocese of Essen , from the Diocese of Aachen and from the Diocese of Osnabrück also complete their training in Münster. The seminary of the diocese of Essen, which was in Bochum , was closed in 2012. The seminaries in Osnabrück and Aachen continue to serve the training and further education of priests. a. during the pastoral course in direct preparation for the deacon ordination and priestly ordination .

Patron of the house

The name is reminiscent of Charles Borromeo , who as a counter-reformer in the period after the Council of Trent (1545-1563) against the lack of education of priests in the Roman Catholic Church occurred, the training of priests reformed and regulated (new).

Maria Immaculata is considered to be the Konpatronin. Mary is represented in the gable of the house with Jesus Christ and from there she blesses all who enter and leave the house.

useful information

There is also an institution in the Archdiocese of Freiburg under the name “ Collegium Borromaeum ”, which fulfills the same function.

literature

100 years of the Episcopal Collegium Borromaeum in Münster, 1854–1954 . Aschendorff, Münster 1954.
Art. Münster. In: Erwin Gatz (Hrsg.): Priest training centers in the German-speaking countries between the Enlightenment and the Second Vatican Council . Herder, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-451-22567-0 , pp. 156-164.
Hans-Bernd Serries (ed.): Concrete training for priests: A cross-section on the 150th anniversary of the Collegium Borromaeum Münster . Dialogverlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-933144-94-9 .
Johannes Schreiter , Stefan Zekorn : Mysterium crucis. The stained glass window by Johannes Schreiter in the chapel of the Borromaeum Seminary in Münster - Secret of the Cross . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-7954-1941-7 .

Individual evidence

↑ William Astrath: The history of the Collegium Borromäum from its inception in 1854 until the re-building after the Second World War . In: 100 years of the Bischöfliches Collegium Borromaeum in Münster, 1854–1954 . Aschendorff, Münster 1954, pp. 39–110.
^ Wilhelm Damberg : Farewell to the milieu? Catholicism in the diocese of Münster and in the Netherlands 1945–1980 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-79984-3 , p. 58.
↑ Who lives here , accessed on July 3, 2020.
↑ Ordination on Pentecost. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. October 6, 2019, accessed August 21, 2019 .
↑ Former seminary becomes a student residence. In: bistum-essen.de. Press Office of the Diocese of Essen, June 10, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2019 .

Web links

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[1] William Astrath: The history of the Collegium Borromäum from its inception in 1854 until the re-building after the Second World War . In: 100 years of the Bischöfliches Collegium Borromaeum in Münster, 1854–1954 . Aschendorff, Münster 1954, pp. 39–110.

[2] Wilhelm Damberg : Farewell to the milieu? Catholicism in the diocese of Münster and in the Netherlands 1945–1980 . Schöningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-79984-3 , p. 58.

[3] Who lives here , accessed on July 3, 2020.

[4] Ordination on Pentecost. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. October 6, 2019, accessed August 21, 2019 .

[5] Former seminary becomes a student residence. In: bistum-essen.de. Press Office of the Diocese of Essen, June 10, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2019 .