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OUR COMMUNITY

 

The Papal Seminary is unique of its kind in the whole of India. It facilitates the formation of young men aspiring to become catholic priests to serve God and people hailing from different parts of India. It is indeed India in miniature.


This academic year (2012-2013), we are blessed with 17 staff members both Jesuits from different provinces in India and diocesan priests from different dioceses of India as well. We are equally blessed with 153 seminarians from 64 dioceses and 3 religious congregations from all over India.

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Our community is rich in human resources with well qualified staff members who accompany the seminarians in small groups called "living groups" in their journey of faith and service. Our young seminarians are talented and graced to make discernment of their vocation in a true spirit of commitment to the Church and to the Nation.

OUR HISTORY

 

The Papal Seminary is more than 100 years old and it dates back its its existence to 1893 when Pope Leo XIII founded it in Kandy, Sri Lanka with the the motto "Filii tui India administrati tibi salutatis," which means "Your son O India, will administer your salvation." The direction and the administration of the Papal Seminary was entrusted to the Society of Jesus.

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The Charter of 27 July 1926, issued by the Holy See, elevated the Papal Seminary to the status of a Pontifical College with the rights and privilege to confer degrees both in Philosophy and Theology. In 1955 the Papal Seminary was transferred to Pune, India. In 1993, the Papal Seminary celebrated the Centenary of its foundation and in 2005, it celebrated the golden jubilee of its transfer from Kandy, Sri Lanka to Pune, India.
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The Papal Seminary continues to form young men keeping in mind the dream of Pope Leo XIII to be ministers of the Church in India. Imbibing the spirit of Vatican II and the Charter for Priestly formation, it engages in the integral formation of young seminarians fostering Christian Values in them thus enabling them to be truly spiritual persons to be at the service of the Church and of the Nation

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