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A seminary , theological seminary , theological college or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students ( sometimes called " seminarians ") in theology , generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy , academia , or ministry . The English word is taken from the Latin " seminarium ", translated as " seed - bed ", an image taken from the Council of Trent document " Cum adolescentium aetas " which called for the first modern seminaries . In the West , the term now refers to Roman ___MASK22___ educational institutes and has widened to include other Christian denominations and American Jewish institutions . Kurt Krenn ( 28 June 1936 -- 25 January 2014 ) was an Austrian Roman ___MASK22___ prelate and Bishop who ran a seminary for priests in Sankt Pölten , near Vienna . He was Bishop of the Diocese of Sankt Pölten , a suffragan see of the Vienna province , from 1991 to 2004 . The Council of Trent , held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento ( Trent ) and Bologna , northern Italy , was one of the Roman ___MASK3___ ' s most important ecumenical councils . Prompted by the Protestant Reformation , it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter - Reformation . Four hundred years later , when Pope John XXIII initiated preparations for the Second Vatican Council ( Vatican II ), he affirmed the decrees it had issued : " What was , still is ."