St. Victor’s Seminary

Even though the Seminary was started originally to train diocesan priests for the northern sector of the country, it has opened its doors to Dioceses outside the country. Seminarians from Burkina Faso, Liberia and Sierra Leone have studied here. With the arrival of the Society of the Divine Word Missionaries, (SVD), in the late 1960s, the Missionaries of Africa (M.Afr.) in the 1970s, St. Victor’s Seminary is not only training diocesan priests but also missionary and religious priests. St. Victor’s Major Seminary is not only interested in the theological formation of future priests but also of the lay faithful. This explains why the members of staff of the Seminary accepted the challenge from the Board of Governors to organise a two-week summer course in philosophy and theology for the lay faithful of the province. This course was begun in 1992 and the first batch of students graduated in September 1994 after successfully completing a three-year cycle of the course. At present we have 137 graduands of this course. St. Victor’s is proud of these alumni of hers most of whom are very actively involved in the work of evangelisation in their parishes and dioceses. It is gratifying to see and hear how products of St. Victor’s Seminary have been rendering invaluable services to their brothers and sisters in Ghana and beyond. No doubt St. Victor’s will continue to strive to be a beacon of light in Ghana and indeed in other parts of the world.