seminarians
Future ordained ministers
Seminarians are students enrolled in a seminary, an institution that trains people for religious ministry, most commonly in the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant Christian traditions.
The term implies someone in the process of discerning and preparing for ordination as a priest, minister, or other religious leader.
The seminarians spent their mornings in prayer and their afternoons studying theology.
A seminarian's training typically combines academic coursework with spiritual formation and practical ministry experience.
Clergy appointment ceremony
- priesthoodOrdained religious office
- diaconateOffice of a deacon
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
- novitiateReligious training period
discernment · formation · vows · celibacy · obedience · vestments · cassock · surplice
Study of the divine
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- homileticsScience of sermon-making
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
dogma · doctrine · ecclesiology · canon law · philosophy · ethics · pastoral care · church history
Strongly felt purpose
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- serviceAid or maintenance
- priesthoodOrdained religious office
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
missionary · chaplain · parish · pastor · preacher · evangelism · discipleship · apostolate
Address to deity
- meditationFocused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- pietySincere religious devotion
faith · liturgy · mass · vespers · matins · retreat · spiritual exercises · adoration
Student living building
- refectoryInstitutional dining room
- chapelSmall worship room
- rectorParish clergy chief
- cohortGroup sharing circumstances
brotherhood · fraternity · common life · meals · recreation · study groups · mentorship · spiritual direction
ordination
Clergy appointment ceremony
- priesthoodOrdained religious office
- diaconateOffice of a deacon
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
novitiate · discernment · formation · vows · celibacy · obedience · vestments · cassock · surplice · tonsure
theology
Study of the divine
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- homileticsScience of sermon-making
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
hermeneutics · dogma · doctrine · ecclesiology · canon law · philosophy · ethics · pastoral care · church history · apologetics
calling
Strongly felt purpose
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- serviceAid or maintenance
- priesthoodOrdained religious office
clergy · missionary · chaplain · parish · pastor · preacher · evangelism · discipleship · apostolate · pastoral
prayer
Address to deity
- meditationFocused attention practice
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
piety · faith · liturgy · mass · vespers · matins · retreat · spiritual exercises · adoration · confession
dormitory
Student living building
cohort · brotherhood · fraternity · common life · meals · recreation · study groups · mentorship · spiritual direction · communal prayer
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- Catholic figurescardinals, archbishops, abbots, bishops, friars
- Catholicsparishioners, parishioner, communicant, archbishops, lapsed Catholic
- ChristiansCatholics, Catholic, Protestants, Protestant, Baptist
- newcomersnewcomers, newcomer, new arrivals, new arrival, newbie
- Catholic ministrycatechists, evangelization, religious education, RCIA, youth ministry
seminarianslaypeople
Those outside a profession
laity · non-religious · atheists · apostates · nonbelievers
seminariansspiritual directors
Religious counselors for souls
rectors · theologians · mentors · instructors · bishops