page_title: St. Mary's Minor Seminary, Lahore
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: St. Mary's Minor Seminary, Lahore / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: This is photo a of Fr. Inayat Barnard.
context_page_description: St. Mary's Minor Seminary, Lahore, is the preparatory seminary in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore. It is the first minor seminary in the country, started by Belgian Capuchin Bishop Marcel Roger Buyse of Lahore in 1951. St. Mary's is now serving Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi dioceses, as well as the Capuchins and Franciscans.
  In November 1991 the seminary was visited by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She spoke to the 112 minor seminarians about their vocation.
  From September 1992, St. Mary's Seminary has been training seminarians from two other dioceses – the Karachi archdiocese and Hyderabad diocese. The physical facilities have also been expanded with two new classrooms on the first floor of the seminary and the new extension hall, named after St. John Vianney, patron saint of diocesan clergy. In 1992 the seminary had 98 students.
  Bishop Joseph Coutts of Faisalabad has been one of its rectors.
  Fr. Inayat Bernard was appointed rector of the diocese's St. Mary's Minor Seminary in 1988.
  Father Zacharia Ghouri was rector of the Seminary in 2007.
  Bernard is rector of the seminary again in 2016.
caption: Fr. Inayat Bernard, Rector 1988 - 2007
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