"I have come to gather all nations"

A new type of seminar for a New Evangelization

Our seminary is one of more than one hundred Redemptoris Mater seminaries worldwide. These seminaries are the fruit of the renewal proposed by the Second Vatican Council, which breathed new missionary zeal into the entire Catholic Church, and of the Neocatechumenal Way, a Christian formation program in which all of us—seminarians and formators—participate in our parishes, and within which we have discovered our vocation.

The Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Dar es Salaam was established in 2007 by Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, in the Diocese of Dar es Salaam, of which he is Archbishop. Since then, seminarians of diverse nationalities and cultures have been training to become priests, and nine of them have already completed their formation and are serving the local Church.

Trainers

Asis Mendoça

Rector

Marek Saran

Vicerrector

POPE JOHN PAUL II on his travels_edited.

John Paul II
Church in Africa

“To organize a comprehensive pastoral solidarity in Africa, it is necessary to promote the renewal of priestly formation. We can never meditate enough on the words of the Second Vatican Council when it affirms that ‘the spiritual gift which priests receive at ordination prepares them not for a limited and restricted mission, but for a very broad and universal mission of salvation “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).’”

“For this reason I myself exhorted priests to ‘be concretely available to the Holy Spirit and to the Bishop, to be sent to preach the Gospel beyond the confines of their own country. This will require in them not only maturity in their vocation, but also an uncommon capacity for detachment from their own homeland, ethnic group and family, and a particular suitability for inserting themselves into other cultures, with intelligence and respect’” (n. 133).

Seminarians

Currently , 18 young men from 7 different countries are training for the priesthood at our Seminary. All of them have discovered their vocation within a Neocatechumenal community, a process of Christian formation recognized by Saint John Paul II as “a Catholic formation journey, valid for society and for our times.”