The Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in 2012.

Cathedral Seminary House of Formation was a Roman Catholic seminary college in the Douglaston, Queens section of New York City. It was founded in 1914 as a minor seminary for the Diocese of Brooklyn, eventually growing to two New York City campuses in Brooklyn and Queens. In 1967, the college programs were detached from the high school program and relocated to Douglaston as a four-year college.

Cathedral College closed in 1987. Today the Cathedral Seminary House of Formation operates on part of the original college campus.[1] The house of formation shut down its seminary program in 2023, but continues to host graduate level programs for diaconate formation and lay faithful.[2]

History

Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception was established in 1914 in Brooklyn as a six-year minor seminary. Like other minor seminaries of that time, students would attend a four-year high school track, receiving a high diploma and then complete a two-year college program. Upon completion of the six-year program, students who wanted to continue to the priesthood would enter a major seminary. Other students would continue their last two years of college at another university.[1]

In 1967, Archbishop Bryan J. McEntegart restructured Cathedral College due to shrinking enrollment and fewer students becoming priests. The Brooklyn and Queens campuses became four-year seminary high schools. The college programs were transferred into an independent four-year college seminary in Douglaston, New York.[1] The college was established to serve seminarians from the Diocese of Brooklyn, the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island, and the Archdiocese of New York. The college's inaugural class had 38 students, 22 of whom eventually became priests.[3] By the early 1970s, the college had over 370 students and offered over a dozen college majors.[4]

In October 2022, it was announced that the Dioceses of Brooklyn, Rockville Centre and The Archdiocese of New York would move the majority of its seminary operations to St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY, and the minor seminary at Cathedral House of Formation was shut down in 2023. Pre-Theology seminarians were moved to Yonkers and college seminarians will study out of state. The House of Formation will continue to host graduate level theology programs.

House of Formation

The Cathedral Seminary House of Formation, was a minor seminary that operated until 2023 and served the Archdiocese of New York and the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Rockville Centre. Seminarians who were completing their undergraduate degrees in philosophy, studied at either Fordham University in the Bronx or at St. John's University in nearby Jamaica. In October 2022, it was announced that the Dioceses of Brooklyn, Rockville Centre and The Archdiocese of New York would move their seminary operations to St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, NY and undergraduate seminarians would study at Catholic seminaries and colleges out of state and pre-theology (those with an undergraduate degree) seminarians studying at St Joseph's in Yonkers. The House of Formation's minor seminary was shut down in 2023. The House of Formation will continue to host graduate level theology programs.

Sources

  • Walsh, Kevin (2006). Forgotten New York: views of a lost metropolis. HarperCollins. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-06-114502-5.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "History". Cathedral Seminary House of Formation. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  2. ↑ "New Path in Priestly Formation". St. Joseph's Seminary & College. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
  3. ↑ Ph.D, Francis J. Lodato; says, ABPP (2019-06-10). "Cathedral College Marks 50th Anniversary With Mass and Dinner". The Tablet. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  4. ↑ "Immaculate Conception Center - Douglaston (Queens), New York". www.nycago.org. Retrieved 2022-04-16.

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