Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. has announced that the new archdiocesan seminary -- scheduled to open for this fall's semester -- will be named for Blessed Pope John Paul II, the National Catholic Register website reports today (May 3, 2011).
The seminary -- which will be located in Northeast Washington, D.C. -- will serve as a college-level pre-theology house of formation, with seminarians attending classes nearby at The Catholic University of America.
Cardinal Wuerl said the seminary will be blessed on October 22 -- the feast day of Blessed John Paul and the anniversary of his installation as pope in 1978.
Seminarians for the archdiocese will begin their formation through the new seminary in August, and renovation of the building is scheduled to be completed in October.
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