Collegium Canisianum

The Collegium Canisianum or simply Canisianum in Innsbruck, Austria, is an international priests' seminary of the Roman Catholic church run by the Jesuits.

History

The Canisianum is one of many Jesuit seminaries worldwide named after Saint Peter Canisius and was built in 1910–1911 under Rector, or Regens, Michael Hofmann, to replace the previous Nicolaihaus seminary, which had been outgrown.

During World War I it also accommodated from 1915 to 1919 the students of the Collegium Germanicum in Rome.

On 21 November 1938 it was shut down by the National Socialists and did not reopen until October 1945.

Notable alumni

• Blessed Vilmos Apor (1892 – 1945), bishop of the diocese of Győr, beatified in 1997
• Blessed Nykyta Budka (1877 – 1959), auxiliary bishop of Lviv (Lwów), beatified in 2001
• Fr. Edward Flanagan (1886 – 1948), founder of Boys Town in the USA
• Josef Frings (1887-1978), Archbishop of Cologne, cardinal
• Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878 – 1946), bishop of Münster, cardinal, beatified 2005
• Blessed Andrew Ishchak (1887 - 1941), professor at the theological academy in Lwów, beatified in 2001
• Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1914 - 2000), Cardinal, archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
• Konrad Graf von Preysing (1880-1950), bishop of Berlin, cardinal
• Paulus Rusch (1903 - 1986), bishop of Innsbruck
• Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867-1951), cardinal archbishop of Kraków, cardinal
• Joseph Slipyj (1892 – 1984), Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Catholic church, cardinal
• Reinhold Stecher (b. 1921), bishop of Innsbruck
• Blessed Clement Sheptytsky (1869 – 1951), Exarch of Russia and Siberia, Archimandrite of the Studite monks, beatified 2001
• Bruno Wechner (1908 - 1999), first bishop of Feldkirch

External links

• (German)Canisianum Website