Bamberg Seminary

Archbishop's Seminary in Bamberg
Seminar type	Propaedeutic seminar
address	Heinrichsdamm 32 96047 Bamberg
country	Germany
carrier	Archdiocese of Bamberg
founding year	1586
Number of seminarians (total)	17 (Oct. 2016)
Rain	Ewald Sauer
Sub-rain	Stefan Fleischmann
Spiritual	Michael Dotzauer
Website URL	Homepage of the seminar

The Bamberg seminary is the training center of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg for candidates for priesthood who do not belong to any order.

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.

The former building of the seminary was converted into the so-called “ diocese house of St. Otto ” in 2007, to which the “ theological and catechetical library ” moved again.

history

Seminary (2014)

The Bamberg seminary goes back to the " Seminarium Ernestinum ", a seminary with an associated academic training, which was founded in 1586 by Prince Bishop Ernst von Mengersdorf and is located in the monastery in the Au , at that time a Carmelite monastery , between today's streets Grüner Markt and An the university located. These buildings were later taken over by the Jesuits, who were also entrusted with the management of the school.

Current development

View of the tower of the seminary from the tower of the Martinskirche (2006)

The candidates for the priesthood of the Archdiocese of Bamberg have been living in the Würzburg seminary and studying at the University of Würzburg since 2007, as long as the theological faculty in Bamberg is inactive . In Bamberg, however, from the 2008/09 winter semester a theological preparatory course was set up for candidates for priesthood in the Bamberg metropolitan area as well as for all East German dioceses that are located in the Erfurt regional seminar . The situation is similar in Passau , where a corresponding preparatory course was set up for southern Bavaria.

literature

• Hans Schieber, Andreas Hölscher (ed.): Seminary on Heinrichsdamm. Spotlights on the beginnings and the present. Seminary, Bamberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021815-6 .
• Michael Hofmann, Wolfgang Klausnitzer , Bruno Neundorfer: Seminarium Ernestinum. 400 years of the Bamberg seminary. St. Otto-Verlag, Bamberg 1986, ISBN 3-87693-046-4 .
• Michael Hofmann, Renate Baumgärtel-Fleischmann (eds.): 400 years of the Ernestinum Seminarium. Exhibition in the Archbishop's Seminary in Bamberg from June 14 to July 12, 1986. Vacation, Bamberg 1986.

Web links

Commons : Priesterseminar (Bamberg)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the press release ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 13.9 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 6.7 ″  E