seminary
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The new consecrations are set to take place near the society's seminary in Econe, a village in the Rhone valley in Alpine southwest Switzerland, at the foot of the mountains.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It isn’t as simple as going to seminary, getting a degree and receiving a call from a congregation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Jackson hesitated — the job required him to leave the seminary six months short of graduation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
He left before completing seminary, joining the civil rights movement full time.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
There was a college out West in Ohio that took female students—a real college, not a young ladies’ seminary.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city located in the north-east of the country, and studied at seminaries in the city before moving to Qom, the centre of Iran's Shia clerical establishment.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Najaf is the main centre of Shia religious seminaries, and is also home to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's top Shia religious authority.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Most of them reside and run seminaries in the holy cities of Qom in Iran and Najaf in Iraq.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
He began his religious instruction at 4 and continued his studies at the revered hawza, a network of illustrious seminaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
Napoleon, in his Organic Articles, imposed it upon the seminaries of France even more strictly than did Louis XIV., at an earlier day.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
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