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==Establishment== |
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With Holy Cross College not taking school age students from 1932 and with a number of the Catholic secondary schools in the country being used as a recruiting ground for the Marist order, the secondary school training of seminarians was a cause for concern. In 1936 the combined Council of Australian and New Zealand Bishops discussed the possibility of a national minor seminary for New Zealand. In 1939 the Sacred Congregation for Propaganda sent an official instruction advising New Zealand to establish a minor seminary. A year later the issue was raised again when the Apostolic Delegate visited Holy Cross and suggested the establishment of a minor seminary on the same site.<ref name="Norris">Peter Joseph Norris, ''Southernmost Seminary: The story of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel (1900-97)'', Holy Cross Seminary, Auckland, 1999, pp. 50-55.</ref> |
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<ref name="Norris">Peter Joseph Norris, ''Southernmost Seminary: The story of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel (1900-97)'', Holy Cross Seminary, Auckland, 1999, pp.</ref><ref>Nicholas Reid, ''James Michael Liston: A Life'', Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006.</ref> <ref name="Simmonds">ER Simmons, ''A Brief History of the Catholic Church in New Zealand'', Catholic Publications Centre, Auckland, 1978.</ref> |
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Bishop James Lyons of Christchurch, with the decisive support of [[James Michael Liston|Archbishop Liston of Auckland]]<ref name="Reid">Nicholas Reid, ''James Michael Liston: A Life'', Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 183.</ref>, decided to push the project and the seminary was sited in his diocese. A large estate was purchased at 265 Riccarton Road and the seminary was opened in February 1947 by [[Giovanni Panico|Archbishop Panico]]<ref name="Reid"/> the Apostolic Delegate, who came over from Sydney, and with the New Zealand hierarchy and the Prime Minister [[Peter Fraser]] in attendance.<ref name="Norris"/> |
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==Operation== |
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The [[Society of Jesus]] staffed the seminary. In 1955 the seminary stopped accepting new entrants from secondary school and started teaching [[philosophy]] at major seminary level. Students for the priesthood thus routinely did two years philosophy study at Holy Nme Seminary and their third year philosophy and four years of theology at [[Holy Cross College, New Zealand|Holy Cross College]]. Some celebrated Jesuits taught at Holy Name Seminary, most notably the New Zealand Jesuit [[Bernard O'Brien]], who helped to give philosophy studies at Holy Name some standing. In the mid 1960s students at Holy Name Seminary started to go to The [[University of Canterbury]] to do degrees.<ref name="Norris">Peter Joseph Norris, pp. 106-109.</ref> |
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==Closure== |
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During the 1970s the decrease in student numbers raised the question of amalgamating Holy Name Seminary and Holy Cross College. Holy Name Seminary closed at the end of the 1978 academic year.<ref name="Norris1"/> |
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==Statistics== |
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The amalgamation resulted in much of the Philosophy teaching vanishing from the curriculum for trainee New Zealand priests.<ref name="Norris1"/> Although the academic records from Holy Name Seminary were destroyed, it seems that from 1964-1978 there were 343 people who attended Holy Name Seminary. Of these 91 were ordained.<ref name="Norris1"/> |
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Revision as of 01:38, 11 January 2011
Holy Name Seminary was a Roman Catholic seminary established in New Zealand for the training of priests. It was first opened in 1947 in Christchurch and closed at the end of 1978.
Establishment
With Holy Cross College not taking school age students from 1932 and with a number of the Catholic secondary schools in the country being used as a recruiting ground for the Marist order, the secondary school training of seminarians was a cause for concern. In 1936 the combined Council of Australian and New Zealand Bishops discussed the possibility of a national minor seminary for New Zealand. In 1939 the Sacred Congregation for Propaganda sent an official instruction advising New Zealand to establish a minor seminary. A year later the issue was raised again when the Apostolic Delegate visited Holy Cross and suggested the establishment of a minor seminary on the same site.[1]
Bishop James Lyons of Christchurch, with the decisive support of Archbishop Liston of Auckland[2], decided to push the project and the seminary was sited in his diocese. A large estate was purchased at 265 Riccarton Road and the seminary was opened in February 1947 by Archbishop Panico[2] the Apostolic Delegate, who came over from Sydney, and with the New Zealand hierarchy and the Prime Minister Peter Fraser in attendance.[1]
Operation
The Society of Jesus staffed the seminary. In 1955 the seminary stopped accepting new entrants from secondary school and started teaching philosophy at major seminary level. Students for the priesthood thus routinely did two years philosophy study at Holy Nme Seminary and their third year philosophy and four years of theology at Holy Cross College. Some celebrated Jesuits taught at Holy Name Seminary, most notably the New Zealand Jesuit Bernard O'Brien, who helped to give philosophy studies at Holy Name some standing. In the mid 1960s students at Holy Name Seminary started to go to The University of Canterbury to do degrees.[1]
Closure
During the 1970s the decrease in student numbers raised the question of amalgamating Holy Name Seminary and Holy Cross College. Holy Name Seminary closed at the end of the 1978 academic year.[3]
Statistics
The amalgamation resulted in much of the Philosophy teaching vanishing from the curriculum for trainee New Zealand priests.[3] Although the academic records from Holy Name Seminary were destroyed, it seems that from 1964-1978 there were 343 people who attended Holy Name Seminary. Of these 91 were ordained.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Peter Joseph Norris, Southernmost Seminary: The story of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel (1900-97), Holy Cross Seminary, Auckland, 1999, pp. 50-55. Cite error: The named reference "Norris" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b Nicholas Reid, James Michael Liston: A Life, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006, p. 183.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
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