Pontifical Collegium Russicum

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The Russicum in Rome .

The Pontifical Collegium Russicum ( Pontificium Collegium Russicum , Pontificio Collegio Russo di Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù ) was a papal college with a seminary of the Roman Catholic Church under the administration of the Society of Jesus, SJ in Rome .

The institute is located near the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore , spatially separated from the Pontificio Istituto Orientale next to the church of Sant'Antonio Abate all'Esquilino in Via Carlo Cattaneo 2 / A.

history

Pope Pius XI founded the institute on August 15, 1929, in view of the persecution of the Christian churches and religion in general by the Soviet state. In the 1950s, the graduates of the Russicum were still working as ordained priests under false names in their Russian parishes. Before leaving, the priests were given all the holy sacraments , including the final unction . Then they were received and adopted by the Pope and the General of the Jesuits in secret audience . The St. Antonius Church is under the administration of the Russicum next to the Collegium Russicum. There is celebrated and prayed according to the Armenian, Chaldean, Alexandrian, Antioch, Byzantine and Slavic rites .

The money for the establishment and maintenance of the institute came from donations from believers all over the world.

In 2016 the Collegium was dissolved and the building became part of the neighboring Pontificio Istituto Orientale.

Rectors

Well-known teachers at the institute

  • Julia Nikolajewna Dansas (born March 9, 1879 in Athens, † April 13, 1942 in Rome), Catholic nun , university lecturer and NCO of the 18th Orenburg Cossack Regiment

literature

  • Constantin Simon: Russicum. Pioneers and Witnesses of the Struggle for Christian Unity in Eastern Europe
    • Volume 1: Leonid Feodorov, Vendelín Javorka, Theodore Romža. Three historical sketches . Rome 2001.
    • Volume 2: The first years. 1929-1939 . Rome 2002.
  • Constantin Simon: Pro Russia. The Russicum and Catholic work for Russia . Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-8-87210-365-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Last oiling . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1949 ( online - Aug. 11, 1949 ).
  2. ^ The Russicum in Rome is dissolved .

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 48.8 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 2 ″  E