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Wynnewood Seminary Opens for New Academic Year
Despite confirming that they were looking for a new home, Wynnewood's Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary has opened for a new school year.
WYNNEWOOD, PA -- The College and Theology Division seminarians of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary will return to campus to mark the start of the academic year on Tuesday, August 23rd beginning with registration and moving-in to the dorms, the seminary announced in a press release.
The Seminary is experiencing another enrollment increase this year and will serve 160 seminarians for 2016-2017, according to the release.
The representative increase is 13% over last year. Of the 45 new seminarians, 18 are seminarians for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and one is from Bangladesh.
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Opening week at the seminary will include campus tours, in which returning seminarians will pair with new seminarians and their families to tour the grounds and facilities. Group activities such as daily Mass and day trips are also planned during the first week. Fall classes for the College and Theology Division of Saint Charles Borromeo officially begin on Thursday, August 25.
It was recently announced that the Seminary planned to move its operation and to join a local college or university.
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