Seminary Cologne

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Seminary Cologne
Cologne Altstadt-Nord Kardinal-Frings-Strasse 8–12.jpg
Seminar type Clerical seminary
address Kardinal-Frings-Strasse 12
50668 Cologne
state North Rhine-Westphalia
country Germany
carrier Archdiocese of Cologne
founding year 1615
Number of seminarians (total) 30 (2017)
Rain Hans-Josef Radermacher
Sub-rain Tobias Hopmann
Spiritual Josef Sauerborn
Website URL Archbishop's Seminary

The Cologne seminary is an institution for training Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Cologne . After completing their academic training, they spend the last two years there before their ordination .

The House

The seminary is located at Kardinal-Frings-Straße 12 in downtown Cologne, not far from Cologne Cathedral and the main train station . A new building for the seminary was built there in 1957 together with the Archbishop's House in what was then Eintrachtstrasse, because Cardinal Frings did not want to live alone in the large area of ​​the bishop's palace, which was destroyed in the war. The seminar life began here in 1959, and it was renovated in 1990/91. The building complex, with the entrance from Gereonstrasse, also housed the Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library, which moved there in 1983 after the Maternushaus conference center was built on the opposite side of the street. The library is now used by the diocesan archive.

history

The Kardinal-Schulte-Haus in Bergisch Gladbach , built in 1924 as a seminary

In 1615 the seminary was opened on Marzellenstrasse, where the Church of the Assumption stands today. It was relocated to the south side of the cathedral in the 18th century, and from 1827 it was located in the former Jesuit college in Marzellenstrasse, today's Archbishop's General Vicariate . It was closed from 1875 to 1886 during the Kulturkampf. In 1895 a major renovation was carried out to make it a modern seminar for its tasks.

In 1924, Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte decided to build a new seminary in Bensberg , as the inner city location and the narrowness of the building increasingly impaired seminar life. In 1957 the seminary returned to Eintrachtstrasse in Cologne. The building in today's Bockenberg district of the city of Bergisch Gladbach now serves as the conference center for the Cardinal Schulte House of the Archdiocese of Cologne and the seat of the Thomas More Academy in Bensberg , which is sponsored by the Diocesan Council of Catholics .

Training and organization

As a rule, the candidates now receive their academic training at the University of Bonn and live in the theological convict Collegium Albertinum in Bonn. After completing their studies, they enter the seminary for the practical part of their training. Usually around 30 students live there.

The focus in the first year of training in the seminary (pastoral year) is a. religious education in schools, children's catechesis and charitable diakonia. After the ordination as deacon , the priestly candidates exercise their ministry in local congregations and then prepare for the ordination in the seminary. The priorities in the diaconate year are u. a. Sacraments pastoral care , catechetics , pastoral liturgy , homiletics ( doctrine and practice of preaching ) and supervision.

In the new priestly year, which begins after the priestly ordination, the accompaniment takes place until the assignment at the first chaplain . The main focus here is a. priestly life, confessional pastoral care and pastoral psychology .

The seminary is directed by the rain . The spiritual is the spiritual companion of the prospective priest and new priest.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Archdiocese of Cologne, accessed on May 8, 2019