While studying at the University of Toronto, this chance encounter with Serra House changed everything for Fr. Martin Dicuangco.

The Ordinandi Class of 2021 graciously re-plated in gold the chalice of Bishop McEvay and a set of cruets for the water and wine for Mass. Learn more.

Despite the challenging times brought on by the ongoing global pandemic, by the grace of God, St. Augustine’s Seminary will have seven men representing various dioceses across the country ordained to the priesthood this year.

St. Augustine’s Seminary welcomes back a familiar face as its new President – Fr. Robert Barringer.

It’s been eight years since Teresa Hartnett, the Director of the Family Ministry Office at the Diocese of Hamilton, obtained her Master of Religious Education from St. Augustine’s, but she says she still regularly draws on what she learned at the Seminary.

Phase one of the chapel restoration will include installing a new, classically styled altar and tabernacle stand, complementing the Chapel’s Romanesque architecture.

Most Reverend Francis Anthony Marrocco entered St. Augustine's Seminary in 1932. He was ordained priest by Archbishop James C. McGuigan in St. Peter's Cathedral, Peterborough on June 12, 1938.

Bishop Mikloshazy was part of a small corps of young Hungarian Jesuits who were welcomed at the English Canadian Jesuit novitiate in Guelph. He was ordained in 1961 but continued to study in Canada and Italy, earning a PhD in liturgical and systematic theology in 1967. He then embarked on an academic career at Regis College in Toronto. He spent a decade, from 1974 to 1984, as a professor in the faculty of theology at Toronto’s St. Michael’s College, then 15 years teaching at St. Augustine’s Seminary. The Bishop’s funeral was held on January 3, 2019. He is interred at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto.

Highlights from the 2018 Preaching Conference. Our keynote speaker, His Excellency Bishop Robert Barron, is founder of Word on Fire Ministries and host of the award-winning PBS series Catholicism. The other presenters were His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Fr. Peter Cameron O.P. and Fr. Jude Siciliano O.P. The conference was widely attended by deacons, diaconate candidates, seminarians, priests, bishops and some laity.

Extraordinary Ordinaries started out as a project to be released in 2017 to help Toronto Catholics celebrate the 175th anniversary of the archdiocese.

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This video was shared by the Serra Clubs of Toronto at the Annual Ordinandi Dinner 2012.

In 1959, in preparation for the Seminary’s fiftieth anniversary, the sanctuary of the chapel underwent a complete restoration. Thanks in large part to the generosity of the Seminary Alumni Association