For Bishops

Your Future Presbyterate

At Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, your diocese’s seminarians will experience formation focused on priestly ministry for a new apostolic age. Like the Apostles of the New Testament, they will be called to proclaim Christ crucified and risen in a world that often does not understand or welcome Him.

The clergy and lay professors, formators, and counselors of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary diligently attend to each seminarian’s interior life, preparing him so he may be a joyful witness to the Gospel in his diocese. In brotherhood with seminarians from a mix of dioceses and archdioceses, your men will engage in profound human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation challenging them to be authentic, prayerful, and generous of heart.

Kenrick-Glennon Seminary has a rich legacy of configuring men to the Heart of Jesus, readying them for priestly ministry in dioceses like yours. Here they are formed to become the Church’s shepherds, to effectively proclaim the Gospel as lifelong missionary disciples. Your seminarians will receive the personal and relational tools to discern intentionally, listen honestly, and respond generously as they earnestly consider a vocation to serve the Church as a priest of your diocese.

Pope Leo XIV affirmed that seminarians “are called to love with the heart of Christ…[W]ith your energy you fuel the flame of hope in the life of the Church.” You will see that this positive, hopeful spirit is alive in the men of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary.

We invite you to contact us today to discuss how Kenrick-Glennon Seminary can assist your diocese in the critical formation of your future presbyterate. Come and see how Kenrick-Glennon Seminary is forming priests for a new apostolic age.