Friday, October 5, 2007

Opening fall enrollment at SJV over the past 16 years

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St John Vianney Seminarians


Catholic Spirit


StP--M Total





1992
14 46
1993
16 36
1994
24 40
1995
22 60
1996
21 74
1997
22 89
1998
23 103
1999
23 88
2000
22 97
2001
16 70
2002
16 72
2003
22 80
2004
27 84
2005
32 106
2006
34 142
2007
35 154




While only a percentage of SJV's graduates
graduates go on to priesthood, those who
aren't ordained still bring their Catholic for-
mation into their communities, businesses
and families.







Of the men that begin studies at SJV, 35 to
40 percent will go on to ordination, according
to Father Baer. Eighty-five percent of the men
who end up graduating from SJV will go on to
major seminary; 70 percent who graduate
will become priests.






























































































































3 comments:

Fr. Andrew said...

Fall of 2000, Class of 2002! Ordained 2006. I think several others of our class (02) are ordained as well.

Terry Nelson said...

Archbishop Harry Flynn deserves much credit for this, as does fr. Baer.

We are so blessed to have so many good men and good priests.

Unknown said...

You're absolutely right, Terry.

Most people probably don't know it, but Archbishop Flynn before he became a bishop was a dean and rector of Mount St Mary's Major Seminary in Maryland betweem 1965-79, one of the biggest, best and most important seminaries in the U.S.

The second oldest Catholic college in the U.S., after Georgetown, it will be celebrating its bicentennial next year.

The book "Goodbye, Good Men, that castigated virtually all seminaries in the United States in the 80s and 90s gave rave reviews to Mount St Mary's and one or two others.

http://books.google.com/books?id=QMWyVp-OAYUC&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=mount+st+mary's+seminary&source=web&ots=4M2NrMf2oM&sig=5FDyW0N6TanJxddCVXSGPTTi8Dg#PPA239,M1