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seminary

[sem-uh-ner-ee] / ˈsɛm əˌnɛr i /








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“I am looking forward to the silence finally stopping, because 54 years of silence is a long time,” said Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, the abbot of the seminary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

In 2002 he moved to the US with his wife and daughter to study at a seminary in California, where his two sons were born.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

I had dreams of becoming a Catholic priest and spent most of my 20s in various forms of conversion therapy in an attempt to prepare for the seminary and to be eligible for application.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2025

The final lineup included a seminary professor, a structural engineer and an investigator for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2025

Johannes Kepler was born in Germany in 1571 and sent as a boy to the Protestant seminary school in the provincial town of Maulbronn to be educated for the clergy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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