Christ was not, Himself, a seminary graduate, nor did He establish an institution of higher learning.
His degrees are from tiny Ouachita Baptist University and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He attended a seminary prep school in Missouri and by 1985 earned his doctorate.
When the war ended, young Ratzinger returned home to Bavaria and swiftly entered a Catholic seminary.
Yet with only a year's reserve left, the seminary grad remains undaunted in his leap of faith.
Another common criticism is that enduring the financial privations of a seminary education is somehow a spiritual obligation.
Before Mark Paver, the Martyrs' player-coach, entered the seminary, he had a semiprofessional career in England's gritty lower leagues.
Among Kovner's acquisitions was Beethoven's 80-page piano transcription of the "Grosse Fuge, " discovered recently at a suburban Philadelphia seminary.
Phil Roberts is president of the Midwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City.
Mr. Moore is dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.
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Father Stephen Wang, dean of studies at Allen Hall Seminary, says it is a sacrifice that many priests manage.
Cardinal Dolan gave an inside glimpse into the drama of the conclave in his talk at the American seminary.
Both were founded in the early 20th century, by two men who studied at the same seminary in Mecca.
Williamson was a novice at the London Oratory, studied at Lefebvre's seminary, and was ordained a priest in 1976.
He has also demanded reform of a law under which ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students can defer their military service.
Then, suddenly, a conservative Democrat who spent six years in Catholic seminary before entering politics made a surprising floor speech.
Each year another 6, 000-odd haredi yeshiva (Talmudic seminary) students reach the age of 18 and join the ranks of the draft-dodgers.
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Mr Davutoglu is hopeful, for example, that the Greek Orthodox seminary on the island of Halki off Istanbul will soon be reopened.
After working as a parish priest, professor and seminary leader, he served briefly as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of St.
But he also called for respect for minorities, declaring that the Greek Orthodox seminary on Halki, an island off Istanbul, must be reopened.
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It also converted and sold a 38-unit apartment building that had been owned by the seminary on 20th Street, across from the square.
The government is talking of reopening a Greek Orthodox seminary on the island of Halki off Istanbul, a long-running demand of the European Union.
And the prospects are worse clergy than for other forms of professional education, because there is no legal seminary requirement which stifles professional competition.
Bishop Williamson returned to the UK last month after he was asked to leave Argentina, where he had been the head of a seminary.
Ingrid Mattson is director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut .
At Friends Seminary, "the administration is still discussing options and we do not have a decision yet, " said Harriet Burnett, director of admissions, in a statement.
After negotiations, they agreed to leave -- but only after Israeli officials agreed to let a group of Jewish seminary students stay on as security guards.
However, its leader, popular former TV presenter Yair Lapid, has demanded reform of a law under which ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students can defer their military service.
Mr Gerson was on a faster track, studying theology at Wheaton College in Illinois (motto: For Christ and His Kingdom), and contemplating studying at a seminary.
From 1973-79 he served as something called the Jesuit provincial in Argentina and in 1980 he became the rector for the seminary where he had studied.
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