Segerea Senior Seminary is a Regional Theological Seminary, located in Dar es salaam Tanzania, about 14 kilometres South-West of the City centre. For more precision, it is about 3 kilometres North-West of the J. K. Nyerere International Airport.
This Seminary was opened in 1979, and is run by the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (T.E.C.) with the aim of training future Catholic Priests for facilitating the mission of our Lord Jesus Christ of spreading the Good News till the end of the times. The four pillars of the formation of the seminary are:- Human, Intellectual, Spiritual and Pastoral formation. In regard to human formation, the Seminarians are trained to develop human qualities such as sincerity, constant love of justice, fidelity to one’s promises, courtesy in deeds, modesty, and charity.
On Academic formation, Seminarians are being taught different disciplines such as Sacred Scripture, Moral Theology, Dogmatic Theology, Liturgy, Church Law (Canon Law), Spiritual Theology, Pastoral Theology, Catechesis, Patrology, Missiology, Islamics, Homiletics, African Tradition Religion, Greek, Hebrew and Latin languages. Spiritual formation is aimed at preparing future priests for the life of holiness. Through spiritual formation, Seminarians are taught to inculcate a sense of mission to exercise ministry with lively faith and charity and to cultivate those virtues which are highly valued in human relationships.
Pastoral formation is provided to students especially in matters pertain to the sacred ministry and in a special way in the celebration of the Sacraments, in dealing with people including non-Catholics, and unbelievers. All these are being guided by the motto “Et eritis mihi Testes” (Act 1:8).
Moreover, realizing and acknowledging the gifts and talents of the community, the Seminary has not lagged behind in concretizing the policy of self-reliance. The seminary has also taken to heart the saying of the wise men that “we do not stop playing because we grow old but rather we grow old because we stop playing”. Hence different kinds of sports have been introduced in the seminary.
With all these, the Seminary works hard so as to prepare future priests and provide them for the service of the Church of Christ in their dioceses and everywhere else around the globe as per demands of the time and places.
