Our Seminary will be an academic, research, business, and residential community, located in the town of Arouca, Trinidad and Tobago (read more).
Our Curriculum
A LIST OF MAJOR SUBJECTS
I. BASIC ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDIES
II. SCRIPTURAL TEACHINGS / BIBLE STUDY – ON BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
COMING SOON!
SERVICE OFFERINGS/FACILITIES
I. TARGET GROUP
The student body of the theological seminary will be sourced from:
Existing ordained local deacons and priests.
Prospective local clergy.
Clergy from the wider Caribbean and Latin America.
Prospective clergy from North America.
Prospective clergy from the Ethiopian Diaspora.
Laypersons of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Persons desirous of pursuing Orthodox theological studies.
II. PROGRAMMES OFFERED
START-UP PROGRAMMES
Deacon Training
Summer programme – studies consisting of eighty (80) contact hours
Pre-Seminary programme – at the completion of which one acquires the equivalent of 4 O’Levels.
Priestly Formation
Summer programme – studies consisting of eighty (80) contact hours
Pre-Seminary programme – at the completion of which one acquires the equivalent of 4 O’Levels
Evangelists
Summer programme – studies consisting of eighty (80) contact hours designed to train person to spread the gospel through the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Sunday School Teachers
Summer programme – studies consisting of eighty (80) contact hours designed to train persons to teach the Sunday School in the parishes.
LONG TERM PROGRAMMES
Certificate in Orthodox Studies
Certificate in Counseling
Certificate in Classical Church Music
Diploma in Orthodox Studies
Bachelor in Theology
Bachelor in Psychology
Bachelor in Sociology
Our Seminary will be an academic, research, business, and residential community located in the town of Aroca, Trinidad and Tobago
Creed of Faith
We believe in One God, Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and all things visible and invisible.
• We believe in One Lord, Jesus Christ (Eyesus Christos) the only begotten Son of the Father who was with Him before the creation of the World.
• We believe in the Holy Spirit, the life giving God who proceeded from the Father, we worship and glorify Him with the Father and the Son who spoke by the Prophets.
• We believe in One Holy Universal Apostolic Church.
• We believe in One baptism for the remission of sins, and wait for the resurrection of the dead and the life to come, world without end.
