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Bukalasa Holy Family Seminary is located on Bukalasa hill, in Villa Maria parish, Kalungu Sub county, in Masaka District, southern Uganda. It is 11 kilometers North East of Masaka town, about 15 minutes’ drive from Nnyendo suburb road junction.
MISSION:
Our Mission is to train young boys for Priesthood. This goes along with preparing them to become leaders of both the Church and the Nation at large.
FOUNDATION:
This Seminary was founded in March 1893 by Bishop Hirth, Fr. and later Archbishop Henry Streicher and Fr. Marcou its first Rector, all of whom belonged to the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, popularly known as ‘The White Fathers’. It is an educational monument, left by the missionary zeal of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, which for quite a period of time stood without an equal or rival in Western and Central Africa, and for that reason rightly deserves the title PIONEER OF EDUCATION.
SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY:
Bukalasa Seminary is a special place, a seed bed (Latin: seminarium) where candidates to the Priesthood are prepared and later on ‘planted’ into the Major Seminaries for growth to Priesthood. We mind very much about the Spiritual, Moral and Academic formation of each candidate. It therefore goes without saying that all the activities done in the seminary are oriented towards forming a person spiritually, morally and academically. Whatever we do is based on our Motto: Pro Christo. (In full: Pro Christo legatione fungimur (Latin), For Christ we carry on the mission. 2 Cor. 5:20.)
POPULATION:
The seminary admits candidates in Senior One and in Senior Five only. The students’ population as now (July 6, 2006) is 287 in the following respective classes:
Senior One A: 49 seminarians;
Senior One B: 49 seminarians;
Senior Two: 62 seminarians;
Senior Three: 60 seminarians;
Senior Four: 22 seminarians;
Senior Five: 27 seminarians;
Senior Six: 18 seminarians.
Projected Impact, Year 2006: Marketing the good name of Bukalasa Seminary near and far for the greater glory of God.
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