The Seminary of Saint Turibius ( es, Seminario de Santo Toribio), also known as the Seminary of Lima or ( es, Seminario de Lima), is a priestly seminary in charge of training seminarians to be future priests of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima ( la, Archidioecesis Limana) is part of the Roman Catholic Church in Peru which enjoys full communion with the Holy See. The Archdiocese was founded as the Diocese of Lima on 14 May 1541. The diocese was r ...

. It is based in

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...

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, and is the second oldest seminary in the

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after that of Bogotá, having been founded on December 7, 1591, by then Archbishop

Turibius of Mongrovejo Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo (16 November 1538 – 23 March 1606) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Lima from 1579 until his death. He first studied in the humanities and law before serving as a professo ...

. It includes several structures, including several

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(those of the Seminar, San José, Saint John Maria Vianney, and the central chapel), as well as several libraries including one for history, philosophy and theology. It is under the jurisdiction of the

Archbishop of Lima The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima ( la, Archidioecesis Limana) is part of the Roman Catholic Church in Peru which enjoys full communion with the Holy See. The Archdiocese was founded as the Diocese of Lima on 14 May 1541. The diocese was r ...

. Its

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Luis Sarmiento.

History

The seminary was founded on December 7, 1591, by Archbishop Toribio de Mogrovejo seeking to instruct future priests of

. In accordance with the canons of the time, it was given the name of the Saint whose name the founder of the school was named:

Turibius of Astorga Saint Turibius of Astorga ( es, Santo Toribio de Astorga; '' fl.'' 446, died 460) was an archdeacon of Tui and an early Bishop of Astorga. Turibius was a zealous maintainer of ecclesiastical discipline, and defender of the Nicene Christianity aga ...

. The street where the first 509.02 m² building was located (2nd block of Jirón Lampa) was named after the seminary, one block behind the Archbishop's Palace and the

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, and three blocks from where the Royal and Pontifical University of San Marcos was located, with which it always maintained close ties. It additionally owned the ''Edificio Santo Toribio'', located at the intersection of

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and Rufino Torrico streets. The first rector of the Seminary College was Hernando de Guzmán, who in 1608-1609 and in 1624-1625 was rector of San Marcos. In 1592 the college obtained the

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. The Lima earthquake of November 13, 1655 destroyed a large part of the school. It was thus temporarily moved to the street next to the San Bartolomé Hospital (approximately at the height of San Joaquín Street, 2nd block of Jirón Cangallo). On June 28, 1679 (73 years after the death of the founding archbishop of the Seminary) Pope

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, through the ''Laudeamus''

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, proclaimed the

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of Toribio de Mogrovejo. As a consequence, the Seminary College took his name. Later the Seminary returned to occupy its original space, on Santo Toribio Street. Toribio de Mogrovejo was

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on December 10, 1726, by

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, through the ''Quoniam Spiritus'' Bull. As a consequence, the Seminary took its original name again, but this time in dedication to its founder, now a saint, and no longer Toribio de Astorga. In 1813, Archbishop , wishing to give the Seminary the extension it lacked to comfortably contain a greater number of students and establish the same curriculum adopted at the ''

Convictorio de San Carlos The Real Convictorio de San Carlos, or Convictorio de San Carlos after independence, was a college in Lima created at the end of the Viceroyalty of Peru and which survived until the first decades of the Peruvian Republic. It was housed at the ''C ...

'', bought the house next to it with his own income and expanded the building, commissioning the work to the priest . Towards the middle of the 19th century, Archbishop

Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro (November 3, 1780 – February 2, 1855) was a Peruvian priest, politician and lawyer. He served as Archbishop of Lima from 1846 to 1855, deputy for Cusco and Arequipa, and President of the Constituent Congresses of ...

carried out a profound reform of the curriculum and the financial system and moved the Seminary to the cloisters of San Francisco Solano and San Buenaventura within the convent of San Francisco. In the middle of the 20th century, for the widening of the Abancay street, these cloisters were cut and the Seminary moved to its new location in the district of Magdalena Vieja. The insignia of the school were: a brown mantle and a blue scholarship with the royal arms.

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History

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