Papal Ethiopian College
| Papal Ethiopian College | ||
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| place | Vatican city | |
| builder | Giuseppe Momo | |
| Construction year | 1929/1931 | |
| Coordinates | 41 ° 54 '8.5 " N , 12 ° 26' 58.8" E | |
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The Pontifical Ethiopian College ( Italian Pontificio Collegio Etiopico ) in the Vatican State is a papal college for seminarians and priests of the Ethiopian Catholic Church and the Eritrean Catholic Church .
history
The first documentation refers to the year 1351, in that year the first pilgrims from Ethiopia were in the Holy City of Rome . Another dating is the participation of Ethiopian clergy at the Council of Florence in 1431. According to tradition, Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484) is supposed to give the clergy and pilgrims from Ethiopia the guest house and the small church of Santo Stefano Maggiore , which was named after St. . Stephen is named to have been assigned on the Vatican Hill . The hospice served as a hostel for pilgrims from Ethiopia and later from Eritrea until 1919 . Pope Benedict XV (1914–1922) had the house renovated and approved the establishment of an educational institution , thus transforming the hospice into a papal college. The first seminarians from Ethiopia came to Rome in 1919. The house was also used as accommodation for the Ethiopian kings when they were in Rome. Pope Pius XI (1922–1939) assigned the college to a new, larger location in the Vatican Gardens and commissioned Giuseppe Momo with the construction of the current building (1928–1931). The original hospice was demolished in the 1930s (with the exception of the Santo Stefano Maggiore Church, which was renovated). In 1930, the was seminary eventually awarded the status of a Pontifical Seminary. As a spiritual advocate, St. Justin De Jacobis (see also: Guglielmo Massaia ).
organization
The rector is proposed by the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia and Eritrea, which holds its meetings in the college, and the Generalate of the Lazarists and confirmed by the Congregation for the Eastern Churches . His term of office is six years. The teachers of the college are clerics from Ethiopia and Eritrea who teach the rite of the Ethiopian Catholic Church . The official and teaching languages are the Amharic language and Tigrinya . Home care is provided by two brothers of the Lazarists and some nuns.
The clergy and seminarians of the college also look after the Ethiopian-Eritrean community of the former titular church of San Tommaso in Parione in Rome. Here they celebrate Holy Mass according to the Latin rite. In the small collegiate church "Santo Stefano degli Abissini", services are celebrated in the Ethiopian rite.
Web links
- Photography: Ethiopian college with garden
- Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa: Collegio Etiopico, Voce di Speranza (Italian) ( Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vatican Gardens (Map No. 48) [1]
- ↑ a b c Un pezzo d'Africa in Vaticano ( it ) L'Osservatore Romano . August 21, 2009. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
- ↑ Address by Pope Benedict XVI. to the members of the Pontifical Ethiopian College in the Vatican (January 29, 2011) [2]