Seminar of Quebec

The Séminaire of Quebec is a community of priests rested by Monseigneur François de Montmorency Laval in 1663 with Quebec.

History

According to the proposals of the Council of Thirty, François of Laval establishes in News-France the Grand Seminar of Quebec being used to train the new priests. Associated with this work was the Seminar, community of priests who were with the service of the Paroisse S like with the training of the seminarists. It is in the presbytery of the bishop that they will live until the inauguration of a more roomy house in 1677.

In 1668, a residence of pupils who study with the College of the Jésuite S is inaugurated. The Petit Seminar of Quebec will become then a vocationnelle residence for those which wished to enter to the Great Seminar. After the Conquest, the Small Seminar becomes a college by replacing the College of the Jesuits, transformed into barracks. The priests of the Seminar become teachers.

University Laval

In 1852 the Seminar founds the Université Laval in order to exempt a teaching of quality to the French-speaking people. The Theology, the Medicine, the Right and art are taught there by the priests, who will also take care of the foundation of a campus with Montreal - future Université of Montreal - like with the construction of the university residence with co.-Foy in the years 1950-60. It is in 1970 that the Laval University will be yielded to a new corporation.

Buildings

Between 1675 and 1932, several buildings will be built in order to accommodate the priests, seminarists and students. Today, the Old man-Seminar accommodates the School of architecture of the University Laval, the Camille-Roy building (recognizable by its lanterns and the flag of the Seminar which floats there permanently) cabin a center for the young adults founded by the Seminar in 2004, Quebec Ixthus, a center of archeology of the Laval University and it will shelter possibly a center of files, the external vault and the residence of the students become at the 20th century residence of the Dominican nuns were transformed into museum, old faculties of the university are used as secondary school, and the building Jean-Olivier-Briand (the residence of the priests) is partly occupied by the Great Seminar.

Today

The Seminar continues to manage works rising from the inheritance of Monseigneur de Laval and the diocese of Quebec. Following the lack of priests, the company with dù to restrict its sphere of activities. Thus, the Small Seminar belongs since 1987 to a non-profit-making private corporation. This one exempts still and always a formation deprived for girls and boys of secondary level in full cradle of French America. On the other hand of other works are always sponsored by the Seminar:

  • the Great Seminar which is used for the formation of the future priests.

  • Quebec IXThUS, a center for the new evangelization near the young adults.
  • the House François-of-Laval, a center of vocation.

The priests are turned over to make ministry in the parishes since 1982. During more than two hundred years, the priests of the Seminar had devoted themselves to education (Small Seminar and Laval University) and to training (Great Seminar).

External bonds

  • Seminar of Quebec

  • Great Seminar of Quebec
  • Quebec IXThUS

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