Seminary of the Immaculate Conception

The Seminary of the Immaculate Conception was an American Roman Catholic seminary in Lloyd Harbor, New York, accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, which served the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre. It offered a number of academic degrees, primarily those of Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry.

The seminary was founded in 1926 in a house in Lloyd Harbor acquired by Thomas E. Molloy, Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which at that time covered all of Long Island. It was an expansion of the original school, St. John's Seminary, located in Brooklyn and staffed by the priests of the Congregation of the Mission as a part of their historic commitment to the education of the clergy of the Catholic Church. It began with 25 students studying at the collegiate level. The construction of the new building to house the seminary was completed in 1930 and classes were offered there in September of that year. The student body at that point was 85 seminarians in the two-year college level and the school of theology.

Due to the expanding population in the suburban counties of Nassau and Suffolk, in 1957 the Holy See separated them from the Diocese of Brooklyn and established the Diocese of Rockville Centre to serve them. The two dioceses agreed to share operation of the seminary. Ten years later the college level segment of the school was discontinued. With the changing needs of ministry in the Catholic Church in the following decades, new programs and degrees began to be offered.