ABOUT US

HISTORY

In 1965, near the end of the Second Vatican Council, Holy Trinity Seminary was founded by Bishop Thomas K. Gorman, the Bishop of what was then known as the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth. Bishop Gorman’s leadership supported by the priests, religious, and laity of North Texas helped to give Holy Trinity Seminary a firm beginning for the sake of the development of the Catholic faith in North Texas and throughout many parts of the United States.

Bishop Gorman established Holy Trinity Seminary in association with the University of Dallas in order that seminarians might receive human formation and a sound education within the Catholic intellectual tradition provided by the curriculum and student life of the University.

Between 1965 and 1986, Holy Trinity Seminary was an eight year seminary providing both collegiate and theological formation and education for seminarians from dioceses across the United States of America. In 1986, Bishop Tschoeppe of Dallas and Bishop Fiorenza of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston agreed to cooperate in the work of seminary formation by maintaining a collegiate program of formation at Holy Trinity Seminary and a graduate program of theological formation at St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston.

Throughout its history, Holy Trinity Seminary has been privileged to prepare men for priestly ministry in the dioceses of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Alaska, Washington, DC and others.

On May 1, 2007, the Most Reverend Kevin J. Farrell was installed as the seventh bishop of Dallas. Bishop Farrell has emphasized, from the first moment of his appointment as the Bishop of Dallas, the central importance of promoting and developing vocations to the priesthood for the sake of the health of the Church in North Texas and throughout the United States. The ministry of a seminary ought to provide a spirit of priestly solidarity that reaches beyond the territorial boundaries of a diocese.

HTS MISSION

Bishop Farrell has emphasized that the mission of Holy Trinity Seminary is not simply a local enterprise for educating priests exclusively for Texas; rather Holy Trinity Seminary is called to offer excellence in human, intellectual, spiritual and pastoral formation for young men from around the United States in service to the Universal Church.

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