Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Seminary, Niagara Niagara Falls, New York, founded 1856, attached to Niagara University, under Vincentians. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Seminary, Kenrick Saint Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1818. In the charge of the Vincentians. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

seminary, ecclesiastical A school established exclusively for the scholastic and spiritual training of candidates for the diocesan clergy. Each diocese should have its own seminary; when this is impractical, the bishop may either send his students to other diocesan seminaries or join other bishops in establishing, with permission of the Holy See, an interdiocesan, provincial, … Continue reading “Seminary, Ecclesiastical”

Seminary and College of Saint Vincent Ferrer Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. Founded in 1869. Conducted by Vincentians. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Seminarist a Roman Catholic priest who has been educated in a seminary. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Seminaries, Theological, In The United States Professional schools for the special training of ministers of the gospel are almost peculiar to America. Although most of the universities of Europe were originally instituted chiefly for ecclesiastical education, and clerical studies were for a long time mainly pursued in them, this was only an accident of the … Continue reading “Seminaries, Theological, In The United States”

Seminaries and Studies, Congregation of Congregation was founded by Pope Benedict XV on 4 November 1915, who united to it the Congregation of Studies. The presiding officer is the cardinal prefect who is ex officio a member of the Holy Office and of the Biblical Commission. The cardinal secretary of the Consistorial Congregation is by … Continue reading “Seminaries and Studies, Congregation of”

Semikin (), or Junctions, is a Masoretic term to denote approaching, belonging together, connection, of one word with another. Now, when two or more words are associated together through the addition or diminution of a letter or word, or by the interchange of words which are not in the habit of being joined in this … Continue reading “Semikin”

SEMIDUPLEX SEMIDUPLEX ORATIO is that species of abbreviated mode of expression, when the relation of two members to one another is such, that the reader is to understand, that the one member is to be supplied from the other, and vice versa, i.e. MUTUALLY. The difference of Concisa Locutio (Abbreviated expression; see above) and Semiduplex … Continue reading “SEMIDUPLEX”

Semidolites a sect of Acephali (q.v.), which sprang up originally under the name of Barsanians at the end of the 5th century. They had no succession of priests, and professed to keep up the celebration of a valid eucharist by placing a few crumbs of the bread which had been consecrated by Dioscurus in a … Continue reading “Semidolites”