Review article
Diocesan Seminary in Đakovo – from the Establishment to 1918
Nikola Škalabrin
; Catholic faculty of Theology in Đakovo, J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Abstract
This article is dedicated to the establishment of the Diocesan Seminary in Đakovo which celebrates its 200th anniversary (1806 – 2006). While after the Council of Trent (1545 – 1563) seminaries were being established in other parts of Europe, all the way from Rome to Zagreb, our two dioceses, those of Đakovo and Srijem, were in the authentic state of slavery. After Slavonia and Srijem had been liberated from the Turks, Catholic Church began to restore both spiritually and materially. Soon the Diocese of Bosnia and the Diocese of Srijem were united (1773), so the requirements of the Decree issued by the Council of Trent, according to which each diocese should have its own seminary, were finally fulfilled. The author starts with the beginnings of the Church, portraying its care for the formation of priests to be, providing the basic characteristics of the catechetic, parish, monastery, diocesan and archdiocesan schools. The establishment of the universities was accompanied with the foundation of the institutes (collegia), with the principal purpose of providing food and lodging for the university students, thus facilitating their dedication to their studies at several faculties of the university. At the London Council (1556) the term seminarium
was used for the fi rst time. It denoted the institute for the formation of the clergy. This Council inspired the Council of Trent to issue the Decree on obligatory foundation of diocesan seminaries. Almost 250 years later bishop Antun Mandić established the Diocesan Seminary in Đakovo.
Keywords
Council of Trent; institute; seminary; minor and major seminary; diocesan and inter-diocesan seminary; philosophy; theology; formation; education; academy; university; diocesan lyceum
Hrčak ID:
47691
URI
Publication date:
26.9.2006.
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