Seminarian Education

For decades Catholic Extension Society has collaborated with dozens of Catholic dioceses to help educate future priests who will be ordained to serve among the poor and in the poorest regions of our country. Each year, we fund the seminarian education of over 500 seminarians and 100 men are ordained. Our educational support of seminarians leading up to ordination has two main purposes:

1. It provides vital financial relief to economically poor dioceses for whom seminarian education is often their single largest operational expense ($40,000 per seminarian per year).
2. The Catholic dioceses served by Catholic Extension Society, though poor in financial resources, are often rich in priestly vocations! Many of our dioceses ordain as much as five times the number of priests as other, larger dioceses.

By supporting well-trained, well-formed priests, we are also benefitting the communities they will one day serve.