{{Short description|Seminary in Peru}} {{Infobox university | name = Seminary of Saint Turibius | native_name = Seminario de Santo Toribio | native_name_lang = es | image = SeminarioStoToribio0001.JPG | caption = Building in Pueblo Libre | type = [[Seminary]] | established = {{Start date|1591|12|07}} | founder = [[Turibius of Mogrovejo]] | parent = | religious_affiliation = [[Catholicism]] | rector = [[Presbyter]] Luis Sarmiento | address = Avenida Sucre 1200, [[Pueblo Libre]] | website = {{URL|https://www.seminariodelima.pe/}} | logo = }} The '''Seminary of Saint Turibius''' ({{langx|es|Seminario de Santo Toribio}}), also known as the '''Seminary of Lima''' or ({{langx|es|Seminario de Lima}}), is a [[Seminary|priestly seminary]] in charge of training seminarians to be future priests of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lima]]. It is based in [[Lima]], [[Peru]], and is the second oldest seminary in the [[Americas]] after [[Major Seminary of Bogotá|that of Bogotá]], having been founded on December 7, 1591, by then Archbishop [[Turibius of Mongrovejo]].
It includes several structures, including several [[chapels]] (those of the Seminar, San José, Saint John Maria Vianney, and the central chapel), as well as several libraries including one for history, philosophy and theology. It is under the jurisdiction of the [[Archbishop of Lima]]. Its [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] is [[Presbyter]] Luis Sarmiento.
==History== The seminary was founded on December 7, 1591, by Archbishop [[Toribio de Mogrovejo]] seeking to instruct future priests of [[Lima]]. In accordance with the canons of the time, it was given the name of the Saint whose name the founder of the school was named: [[Turibius of Astorga]].<ref name=Valega>{{Cite book |title=El Virreinato del Perú, Historia crítica de la época colonial, en todos sus aspectos |last=Valega |first=José M. |publisher=Editorial Cultura Ecléctica |year=1939 |location=Lima |language=es}}</ref> The street where the first 509.02 [[Square metre|m<sup>2</sup>]] building was located (2nd block of [[Jirón Lampa]]) was named after the seminary,<ref name=Bromley>{{Cite book |title=Las viejas calles de Lima |last=Bromley Seminario |first=Juan |publisher=[[Metropolitan Municipality of Lima]] |year=2019 |location=Lima |language=es |url=https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |author-link=Juan Bromley |pages=399–400 |archive-date=2020-04-20 |access-date=2024-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420211756/https://www.munlima.gob.pe/images/las-viejas-calles-de-lima.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Planas>{{Cite web |url=https://especiales.elcomercio.pe/?q=especiales/casonas-del-centro-historico-de-lima-multimedia-nndd/index.html |title=Las casonas del Centro de Lima |website=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]] |last=Planas |first=Enrique}}</ref> one block behind the [[Archbishop's Palace of Lima|Archbishop's Palace]] and the [[Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima|Cathedral of Lima]], and three blocks from where the [[University of San Marcos|Royal and Pontifical University of San Marcos]] was located, with which it always maintained close ties. It additionally owned the ''Edificio Santo Toribio'', located at the intersection of [[Jirón Huancavelica|Huancavelica]] and [[Jirón Rufino Torrico|Rufino Torrico]] streets.<ref name=Planas/> The first rector of the Seminary College was Hernando de Guzmán, who in 1608-1609 and in 1624-1625 was rector of San Marcos.<ref>{{Cite book |title=La Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, iv centenario de la fundación de la Universidad Real y Pontificia y de su vigorosa continuidad histórica |last=Eguiguren |first=Luis Antonio |publisher=Imprenta Santa María |year=1951 |location=Lima |language=es |author-link=Luis A. Eguiguren}}</ref> In 1592 the college obtained the [[Patronato real|royal patronage]].<ref name=Bromley/>
The Lima earthquake of November 13, 1655 destroyed a large part of the school.<ref name=Valega/> It was thus temporarily moved to the street next to the [[San Bartolomé Hospital]] (approximately at the height of San Joaquín Street, 2nd block of Jirón Cangallo).<ref name=Doering>{{Cite book |title=Planos de Lima, 1613-1983 |last=Doering |first=Juan Gunther |publisher=[[Metropolitan Municipality of Lima|Municipalidad de Lima Metropolitana]] |year=1983 |language=es |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06efQgAACAAJ}}</ref>
On June 28, 1679 (73 years after the death of the founding archbishop of the Seminary) Pope [[Innocent XI]], through the ''Laudeamus'' [[Papal bull|Bulla]], proclaimed the [[beatification]] of Toribio de Mogrovejo. As a consequence, the Seminary College took his name.<ref name=Doering/> Later the Seminary returned to occupy its original space, on Santo Toribio Street. Toribio de Mogrovejo was [[canonized]] on December 10, 1726, by [[Pope Benedict XIII]], through the ''Quoniam Spiritus'' Bull. As a consequence, the Seminary took its original name again, but this time in dedication to its founder, now a saint, and no longer Toribio de Astorga.
In 1813, Archbishop {{ill|Bartolomé María de las Heras|es}}, wishing to give the Seminary the extension it lacked to comfortably contain a greater number of students and establish the same curriculum adopted at the ''[[Convictorio de San Carlos]]'', bought the house next to it with his own income and expanded the building, commissioning the work to the priest {{ill|Matías Maestro|es}}.<ref name=Fuentes>{{Cite book |title=Estadística General de Lima |last=Fuentes |first=Manuel A. |year=1858 |language=es}}</ref>
Towards the middle of the 19th century, Archbishop [[Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro]] carried out a profound reform of the curriculum and the financial system and moved the Seminary to the cloisters of San Francisco Solano and San Buenaventura within the [[Basilica and Convent of San Francisco, Lima|convent of San Francisco]].<ref name=Bromley/><ref name=Fuentes/> In the middle of the 20th century, for the widening of the [[Avenida Abancay|Abancay street]], these cloisters were cut and the Seminary moved to its new location in the district of [[Pueblo Libre|Magdalena Vieja]].<ref name=Bromley/> The insignia of the school were: a brown mantle and a blue scholarship with the royal arms.<ref name=Bromley/>
==See also== *[[Metropolitan Cathedral of Lima]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{Lima landmarks}} {{coord|-12.0835|-77.0679|type:landmark_region:PE|display=title}} {{Authority control}}
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