List of Catholic seminaries


This is a list of Catholic seminaries in the world, including those that have been closed. According to the 2012 Pontifical Yearbook, the total number of candidates for the priesthood in the world was 118,990 at the end of the year 2010. These students were in 6,974 seminaries around the world: 3,194 diocesan seminaries and 3,780 religious seminaries.

Africa

Benin

  • Saint-Gall de Ouidah Major Seminary

    Congo, Democratic Republic of

  • Grand Séminaire de Lubumbashi – for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lubumbashi
  • Grand Séminaire Jean XXIII – for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kinshasa

    Ghana

  • St. Gregory the Great Provincial Major Seminary – for the Roman Catholic Province of Kumasi
  • St. Paul's Catholic Seminary
  • St. Peter's Regional Seminary
  • St. Victor's, Tamale
  • St Teresa's Minor Seminary

    Namibia

  • St. Charles Lwanga Major Seminary – of Namibian Catholic Bishops' Conference

    Nigeria

  • St. John Vianney Seminary, Barkin Ladi – Established in January 1958 by the late Right Rev. Dr. John Reddington for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jos.
  • Seat of Wisdom Seminary – Established in 1982; for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri
  • Seat of Wisdom Seminary, Ariam-Umuahia
  • Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu – A provincial seminary for the Onitsha ecclesiastical province, established in 1950.
  • St Joseph Major Seminary, Ikot Ekpene
  • St Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary, Makurdi
  • St John Cross Seminary, Nsukka
  • Pope John Paul II Major Seminary, Awka
  • SS Peter and Paul, Bodija, Ibadan
  • All Saints Seminary, Ekpoma
  • Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaduna
  • Claretian Institute of Philosophy, Nekede
  • Spiritan International school of Theology, Attakwu
  • Spiritan Institute of Philosophy, Isienu
  • St Augustine Seminary, Jos
  • Blessed Iwene Tansi Major Seminary, Onitsha
  • The National Missionary Seminary of St Paul, Gwagwalada Abuja
  • St Albert the Great Idowu Ofonron Abeokuta, Ogun State

    South Africa (which included Eswatini, Lesotho and Botswana)

  • St John Vianney Seminary, Pretoria
  • St Francis Xavier Orientation Year Seminary
  • Redemptoris Mater Seminary for training priests of the Neo-Catechumenal Way
  • St Joseph's Theological Institute, founded in 1943 by the Oblates
  • St Philip Neri collegium
  • St Peter's Major Seminary, originally for indigenous priests, merged into St. John Vianney's in 2008
  • St. Paul’s Minor Seminary
  • St. Augustine Major Seminary, in Lesotho, established 1924
  • St. Charles Lwanga Minor Seminary, Botswana

    Togo

  • Jean Paul II Interdiocesan Major Seminary, Lomé
  • St Paul Interdiocesan Major Seminary, Kpalimé
  • Benoit XVI Interdiocesan Major Seminary, Tchitchao

    Uganda

There are several Seminaries in Uganda divided into three; Junior, Minor and Major seminaries.
; Major seminaries
  • Saint Mbaaga's Major Seminary Ggaba: Philosophy and Theology
  • Ggaba National Major Seminary: Theology
  • St. Thomas Aquinas National Seminary, Katigondo: Philosophy
  • Uganda Martyr's National Major Seminary Alokolum: Philosophy
  • Kinyamaskia National Major Seminary: Theology
; Minor and Junior Seminaries
  • Bukalasa National Minor Seminary, Villa Maria
  • Christ the King Seminary, Kisubi
  • St. Joseph's Seminary, Nyenga
  • Mubende Seminary, Nandere,
  • St. Mary's Seminary, Nadiket, Moroto City
  • St. Charles Lwanga Seminary, Nyakibale, Rukungiri
  • Saints Gabriel and Raphael Seminary, Nswanjere
  • St. Pius X Seminary, Nagongera
  • St. Paul's Seminary, Rushoroza, Kabale
  • St. Francis Xavier Kitabi Minor Seminary, Bushenyi District
  • Sacred Heart Mission for the Brothers of Divine Mercy; Missionary preparation
  • Sacred Heart Seminary Lacor, Gulu City
  • St. Peter's Seminary, Madera, Soroti City
  • St. John Bosco Minor Seminary, Hoima
  • Saints Peter & Paul Seminary, Pokea, Arua City.

    Americas

Argentina

Argentina has 32 major seminaries.
By the 'Organización de Seminarios Latinoamericanos', there are 429 seminaries in Brazil. The following list is by leading Ecclesiastical Provinces.
Aparecida
Belém do Pará
Belo Horizonte
Brasília
Campinas
Cascavel
Curitiba
Fortaleza
Goiânia
  • Seminário Interdiocesano São João Maria Vianney
Guarulhos
  • Seminário Diocesano Imaculada Conceição – for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarulhos
  • Seminário Propedêutico Santo Antônio – for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarulhos
Mariana
Natal
Niteroi
Nova Friburgo
Olinda e Recife
Porto Alegre
São Paulo
São Salvador da Bahia
São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Vitória
Alberta
  • St. Joseph Seminary – Opened in 1927
British Columbia
Ontario
  • St. Augustine's Seminary – Archdiocesan seminary of the Archdiocese of Toronto; established in 1913
  • St. Peter's Seminary – Located in the Diocese of London, Ontario. Established in 1912, and affiliated with King's University College, University of Western Ontario
  • St. Philip's Seminary – Archdiocesan seminary of the Archdiocese of Toronto; established in 1986
  • Serra House – Archdiocesan house of formation of the Archdiocese of Toronto where pre-theology seminarians reside; established in 1984 as a House of Discernment to the Priesthood
Quebec
Closed:
Colombia has 50 major seminaries.