Theological College - The Catholic University of America

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Theological College is one of the nation’s oldest and most-respected Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States. It is affiliated with The Catholic University of America, and is owned and administered by the priests of the Society of St. Sulpice, pioneers in priestly formation in the United States since 1791.

Theological College traces its roots to 1889, when the Society of St. Sulpice was asked to administer Divinity College of The Catholic University of America. Some years later, then-Cardinal James Gibbons urged the Sulpicians to build a seminary adjacent to the University. In 1917, construction of the Sulpician Seminary was begun. Opened first as an extension of St. Mary’s in Baltimore, it began to function as an independent national seminary in 1924. Following the transfer of responsibility for academic instruction of seminarians to the School of Theology at The Catholic University of America in 1940, the seminary changed its name to Theological College.

Today, in cooperation with Catholic University’s School of Theology and Religious Studies and the School of Philosophy, Theological College provides candidates with the necessary human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral preparation for priestly ministry through three distinct programs: the Pre-Theology Program, the Theology Program and the Basselin Scholars Program.