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The Major Seminary in Bruges, in Dutch Grootseminarie, is a centre for training and formation in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bruges, formerly used as the seminary for preparing candidates for the diocesan priesthood. It is located on the Potterierei in Bruges.




History


Since 2018, candidates for the priesthood from all Flemish dioceses have been trained at the Johannes XXIII Seminary, Leuven, but the Major Seminary in Bruges continues to provide other educational opportunities, such as the Theologische academie and the School voor geloof. The seminary has a large library and is housed in the 17th-century buildings of the former Ten Duinen Abbey, established in Bruges by Bernard Campmans in 1627. The buildings also house a branch of the United Nations University which works closely with the College of Europe.




Presidents


The president of the seminary was one of the leading priests of the diocese and usually an honorary canon of the cathedral chapter.
The presidents:

Louis-Joseph Delebecque (1798-1864) - president 1833-1838
Livinus Bruneel (1798-1885) - president 1838-1869
Petrus Dessein (1811) - president 1869-1884
Henri Delbar (1833-1894) - president 1884-1899
Henri Vandenberghe (1848-1932) - president 1899-1907
Kamiel Callewaert (1866-1943) - president 1907-1934
Achiel Verhamme (1891-1959) - president 1934-1952
Maurits De Keyzer (1906-1994) - president 1952-1961
Joris Van Eeghem (1921-1999) - president 1961-1970
Paul Declerck (1922-1981) - president 1970-1981
Adelbert Denaux (born 1938) - president 1981-1992
Eric Vanden Berghe (1948-2006) - president 1992-2006
Koen Vanhoutte (born 1957) - president 2006-2016
Philippe Hallein (born 1972) - president 2016-2018




References






Further reading


Adelbert Denaux & Eric Vanden Berghe (eds.), De Duinenabdij en het Grootseminarie te Brugge, Tielt, 1984
Kurt Priem, Het Grootseminarie te Brugge, de voormalige Duinenabdij, Bruges, 2009




External links


Media related to Grootseminarie van Brugge at Wikimedia Commons

Official website

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar Seminari Katolik
• Major Seminary in Bruges
• List of Catholic seminaries
• Gustavus Waffelaert
• Roger Vangheluwe
• Johan Joseph Faict
• Valerius Coucke
• Minor Seminary, Roeselare
• Petrus De Brabandere
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Ghent
• Bernard Jungmann