Regensburg seminary

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Regensburg seminary
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Seminar type Clerical seminary
address Bismarckplatz 2
93047 Regensburg
state Bavaria
country Germany
carrier Diocese of Regensburg
founding year 1653 (new foundation)
Number of seminarians (total) 37 (as of 2015)
Rain Msgr. Martin Priller
Sub-rain Christoph Leuchtner
Spiritual Matthias Effhauser
Website URL www.priesterseminar-regensburg.de

The Regensburg Episcopal Seminary is the training center of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg for candidates for priesthood from its own diocese and the Diocese of Passau .

history

Attempts to establish a seminary in Regensburg have been made since the Council of Trento , which called for a seminary for each diocese. Due to various resistances of political and church was only in 1653 under Cardinal Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg , the "Seminar on Hl. Wolfgang" in the Dompräbende be opened St. Peter. In 1679 the seminary, which at that time was called the “Blue Seminary” because of the seminarians' blue robes , moved to the Augsburg court.

After a long time without any major changes, the seminary moved to the former Jesuit college St. Paul Mittelmünster in 1787 , where up to 40 alumni could be accepted. In the secularization the seminary was not dissolved due to fortunate circumstances. In 1809, however, the college caught fire after French fire during the battle of Regensburg . In the following 13 years the seminar was housed in various buildings. After it was initially located in the French embassy building, Prince Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg offered his house on Domplatz in 1810 . This was followed by placements in the monastery of Sankt Emmeram , the old cathedral priest and the Augsburg court. The then coadjutor Johann Michael Sailer was finally able to acquire the Reichsstift Obermünster as a building for the seminary in 1822.

In 1852 a second training course was to be established, as had long been the practice in other seminaries. Since the Reichsstift Obermünster did not offer enough space for it, Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey had the Schottenkloster St. Jakob closed , thanks to his good relations with the Pope . After extensive renovations, the seminarians moved there in 1872.

education

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. From 1923 to 1968 this part took place at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg .

After the one-year propaedeutic theological course in Passau , the candidates for priesthood begin their studies at the University of Regensburg or at the Episcopal Studies Rudolphinum and live in the seminary, where the more practical part of the training is carried out in parallel.

Since 2008, candidates for the priesthood of the Diocese of Passau have also been regularly in the Regensburg seminary, because the Passau seminar has only carried out the theological preparatory course since then. The reason for this lies in the fact that studying theology at the University of Passau is no longer possible because the faculty there is "dormant".

Pope Benedict XVI Institute

The Institute Pope Benedict XVI is also in the Regensburg seminary . housed, which started work on September 1, 2008. This institute is a central place for research into the life and work of Pope Benedict XVI. and gives the collected writings of Joseph Ratzinger / Benedikt XVI. out. Director is the current Bishop of Regensburg Rudolf Voderholzer .

Pope visit 2006 in Regensburg

During his trip to Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI lived. from 11-14 September 2006 with his entourage in the seminary in Regensburg. To commemorate the memorable visit of the pontiff, a fountain on the subject of the first encyclical of Benedict XVI was built in the cloister of the former Schottenkloster St. Jakob, in which the seminary is located. ("Deus caritas est") created. In addition, a bronze monument was erected in front of the Church of St. Jacob that is also intended to commemorate the visit of Pope Benedict.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Michael Wittmann: News of the fire of the archbishop's seminary in Regensburg on April 23, 1809 , Habbel, Regensburg 1909, online at bib-bvb.de
  2. ^ Institute Pope Benedict XVI. - The Institute. Accessed December 3, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ A memorial for Pope Benedict XVI: "We all felt that it is nice to be Catholic". Retrieved December 3, 2019 .

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