Pelplin Seminary
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The Higher Spiritual Seminary (Polish Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne ) is a Roman Catholic seminary in Pelplin in Poland . It is a training center of the Pelplin diocese and part of the Theological Faculty of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń . The seminary was founded in Chełmno (Culm) in 1651 and has been housed in a building of the former Cistercian monastery since 1829 .
history
In 1651 a Catholic seminary was founded in Culm. It belonged to the diocese of Culm and was the only royal Polish part in Prussia . It was damaged in the Polish-Swedish war and rebuilt in 1677 under the direction of missionaries of St. Vincent de Paul .
After the area passed to the Kingdom of Prussia and the reorganization of the West Prussian Catholic Church, the seminary was relocated in 1829 to a building in the Cistercian monastery at Pelplin, which had recently been dissolved. It has always played an important role in the preservation of the Catholic tradition and the strengthening of Polish culture in the region.
In 1939 the seminar was closed by the German occupying forces. Many of the teachers and students were killed in the following years.
It was reopened in 1945 and has existed ever since. The seminary has belonged to the new Pelplin diocese since 1992 and has been part of the theological faculty of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń since 2006. In 2020 there are 44 seminarians .
Library
There is an important library in the seminar. In addition to its own holdings since 1651, it also contains works from the historical libraries of the Pelplin Monastery and other dissolved monasteries from West Prussia.
Web links
- Pelplin Seminary own website (Polish)
- History of the seminar on its own website (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Library of the Pelplin Fabian seminary , University of Göttingen
Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 36.3 " N , 18 ° 41 ′ 41.4" E