page_title: Major Seminary of Bogotá
section_title: Growth and new buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Major Seminary of Bogotá / History / Growth and new buildings
caption_attribution_description: Fundado en 1581 como Seminario de San Luís. 8 años de estudio: 1.Un año introductorio conocido eclesiásticamente como "Propedéutico". 2.Primer año de filosofía. 3.Segundo año de filosofía. 4.Primer año de teología. 5.Segundo año de teología. 6.Año de Pastoral fuera del Seminario (en mitad del ciclo teológico) 7.Tercer año de teología. 8.Cuarto año de teología. &lt;a href="http://seminariobogota.org" rel="nofollow"&gt;seminariobogota.org&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: The Theological Seminary of Bogotá, commonly known as the Major Seminary of Bogotá is a Roman Catholic major seminary located in Bogotá, Colombia, and serving both the Archdiocese of Bogotá and the Diocese of Facatativá. With history dating back to 1581, it is the oldest seminary in the Americas, and today is the largest and most prominent seminaries in Colombia, with dozens of alumni having been appointed bishops, archbishops, and cardinals. In addition to religious leaders, two Colombian presidents have been associated with the seminary. José Manuel Marroquín, the 27th President of Colombia, studied there in the 1840s, and Miguel Abadía Méndez, who was president in the 1920s, taught Latin at the seminary in the early 20th century.
context_section_description: In 1891, Archbishop Herrera was appointed Archbishop of Bogotá, putting him back into contact with the seminary. He gave the seminary new statutes, and wished to construct it a new building. Construction began on the building, located on 11th Street in Bogotá, and the seminary moved its facilities there, but the building was never fully completed. In 1917, upon the publication of the new Code of Canon Law, the seminary's statutes were updated to keep in accordance.
  In 1928, Archbishop Ismael Perdomo Borrero divided the seminary into two, a major and minor seminary. In the mid-1940s Perdomo also commissioned the construction of a new seminary building, located in the old "El Chico" haienda, which was completed in 1946 and is still home to the seminary to this day.
caption: The main building of the seminary, completed in 1946 and commissioned by Archbishop Ismael Perdomo Borrero.
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "2592", "Image ImageLength": "1944", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Make": "FUJIFILM", "Image Model": "FinePix S5600", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2011:01:10 17:22:49", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 50, 53, 48, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0]", "Image ExifOffset": "344", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[4, 40, 729316147/28043005]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[74, 2, 2427467039/76036111]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "2572", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[19, 30, 49]", "GPS GPSImgDirectionRef": "T", "GPS GPSImgDirection": "303/2", "GPS GPSMapDatum": "WGS-84", "GPS GPSDestLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSDestLatitude": "[4, 40, 33329/1391]", "GPS GPSDestLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSDestLongitude": "[74, 2, 124874/4053]", "GPS GPSDate": "2011:01:09", "Image GPSInfo": "976", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1422", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7430", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/250", "EXIF FNumber": "9/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "64", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2011:01:09 19:30:49", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2011:01:09 19:30:49", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "809/100", "EXIF ApertureValue": "43/10", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "417/50", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "17/5", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "63/10", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2540", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1906", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "944", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "4442", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "4442", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "3", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "00d2a7207e632c8196d2baa78450f00f"}