Z dziejów Częstochowskiego Seminarium Duchownego w Krakowie (1926 – 1991)

Abstract

According to Canon Law every diocese has to own Seminary, where future priests should get the proper theological knowledge and spiritual formation. Establishing with the force of Pope Pius’s XI bull Vixdum Poloniae unitas diocese of Czestochowa did not own seminary in its area. That is why the first bishop of Częstochowa dr Teodor Kubina purchased area from Observants in Cracow near Wawel, where the building of seminary was built. Since 1926, clerical students studied philosophic- theological subjects in the department of theology at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. During the Second World War the building of seminary was taken by German officers and clerical students studied secretly living in different places of Cracow. After the finishing the war, supervisors and clerical students went back to their building. The lecturers were in the department of theology at Jagiellonian University. After the eradication of this department, bishop Zdzisław Goliński created studium domesticumin in Seminary in Częstochowa. The scientific and educational classes were run by priests from Czestochowa. After some time bishop Stefan Bareła joined Seminary with Papal Theological Department in Cracow and next with Papal Theological Academy in Cracow. Such corporation remained in the same state after building of Seminary and moving it to Częstochowa in 1991. Seminary was blessed by Pope John Paul II.