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Saint Gregory Seminary
Saint Gregory Seminary, also known as Mount Saint Gregory, was a Minor seminary, high school and college seminary of the Catholic Church in Mount Washington, Cincinnati, serving the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in Ohio. Founded in 1890 by bishop William Henry Elder, William Elder along with John Albrinck and Bernard Engbers, it was closed from 1907 to 1923 due to financial difficulties. It reopened in 1923, and was permanently closed in 1980 due to declining enrollment. Over 1100 students graduated from Saint Gregory during its 70 years of operation. The Lombard architecture, Lombard-Romanesque architecture, Romanesque campus became the site of Athenaeum of Ohio, Mount Saint Mary Seminary of the West on two occasions: From 1904 to 1923, and from 1980 to the present. History Background Prior to the establishment of St. Gregory, high-school and undergraduate-aged men discerning a vocation to the priesthood studied at the various campuses of the major seminary of the Archdiocese ...
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Seminary
A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy, in academics, or mostly in Christian ministry. The English word is taken from , translated as 'seed-bed', an image taken from the Council of Trent document which called for the first modern seminaries. In the United States, the term is currently used for graduate-level theological institutions, but historically it was used for high schools. History The establishment of seminaries in modern times resulted from Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent. These Tridentine seminaries placed great emphasis on spiritual formation and personal discipline as well as the study, first of philosophy as a base, and, then, as the final crown, theology. The oldest Catholic seminary in the United States is ...
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