Nossa Senhora da Fatima Seminary (Dili)
Nossa Senhora da Fatima is a Roman Catholic seminary in the Archdiocese of Dili in East Timor .
history
The pastoral seminary was founded on October 13, 1936 in Soibada . In 1951 it was moved to Dare near Dili . In 1954 the seminary was officially registered by the Curia . In 1958 the Jesuits took over the leadership of the seminary. In 1983 the Colégio de São José was separated from the seminar as a separate institution. The students also include 50 seminarians.
Various leaders of the former Portuguese colony and today's East Timor were trained here. It was the only place in colonial times where locals could get an education beyond secondary school.
In 2001 the seminary had 75 Timorese candidates for the priesthood.
After the unrest in East Timor in 2006 , the seminary's property was used as a refugee camp for several thousand people.
Former students
- Francisco Xavier do Amaral , politician
- Alberto Araújo , independence activist and philosopher
- Alberto Carlos , politician
- António da Conceição , politician
- Gil da Costa Alves , politician
- Norberto do Amaral , Bishop of Maliana
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo , former Bishop of Dili
- Vítor da Costa , politician
- Francisco Lopes da Cruz , politician
- Duarte Nunes , politician
- Xanana Gusmão , politician
- José Ramos-Horta , politician
- Nicolau dos Reis Lobato , freedom fighter and politician
- Alberto Ricardo da Silva , Bishop of Dili
- Jacob Xavier , politician
Individual evidence
- ^ Mission of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- ↑ Agenzia Fides 2/7/2008 ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ABC: Late Night Live in Timor-Leste , October 22, 2007 ( Memento from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Christalis, Irena. East Timor: A nation's bitter dawn. Zed Books, London, 2009
- ↑ BBC News 9 May 2007
- ↑ Radio National 26/05/99 ( Memento of December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
