Archiepiscopal seminary of Milan

The archiepiscopal seminary of Milan is the seminary of Archdiocese of Milan.

At present it has three seats: in Venegono Inferiore (Varese province), Seveso (Monza e Brianza Province) and in Milan, in corso Venezia. In the latter have their place the ISMI (Istituto sacerdotale Maria Immacolata), that takes care of the continuous training of priests in during the first five years from ordination, and the Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose; other various diocesan activities have been holding there. In the other two sites training of seminarists of theology is supervised: in Seveso the I and II theology with the corso propedeutico, in Venegono the subsequent years (from III to VI theology).

The first seminary back to the times of St. Charles Borromeo: the site opened in 1564. Under the bishopric of Federico Borromeo took final form the location of the venue corso Venezia, under the name of Seminary of Porta Orientale. Besides its headquarters in Milan, St. Charles built several locations in the large diocese.

From 1638 to 1784 were seven: three in the city of Milan (the Seminary of Porta Orientale, the Seminary of Canonica, the Collegio Elvetico), four minor seminaries in Monza, Arona, Celana and Pollegio.

First reform school and then the presence of Napoleon's troops radically transformed the structure and the previous configuration: for various reasons ceased to be diocesan seminaries Celana, the Collegio Elvetico, the Seminary of Canonica and later Arona; a structure in Castello above Lecco was instead opened. In 1839 was the transfer of that seat at the Dominican convent of St. Peter Martyr in Seveso. With this step the configuration seminary route became so simplified: the ginnasio in Seveso, the liceo in Monza, the theology in Milan.

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