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St. Pius X Seminary (Dubuque, Iowa)
St. Pius X Seminary is associated with Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, and run under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. The seminary prepares Minor (College) Seminarians for the priesthood, specifically preparing candidates for entrance into Major Seminary & Theological studies. Through Loras, the seminary provides full training in Philosophical studies, while giving students the necessary religious studies courses required for entrance into Major Seminary. Founded in 1839 by Bishop Mathias Loras as St. Raphael Seminary, the seminary has operated under various names and conditions at Loras College until adopting its present name in 1954. St. Pius X has prepared countless Seminarians across Iowa & surrounding states for the priesthood, counting over 30 Bishops as alumni. Currently, the seminary is housed at the Vianney House and serves Seminarians of the Archdiocese of Dubuque and the Diocese of Des Moines The Diocese of Des Moines () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loras College
Loras College is a private Catholic college in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It has an enrollment of approximately 1,600 students and is the oldest post-secondary institution in the state of Iowa. Loras offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It is one of four four-year post-secondary institutions in the City of Dubuque, one of four Catholic colleges in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, and one of six Catholic colleges in the state of Iowa. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Loras College Historic District in 2020. History The college has had different names during its existence; * Saint Raphael's Seminary and then Saint Raphael's Academy (1839–1850) * Mount St. Bernard's College and Seminary (1850 – 1873) * St. Joseph's College (1873 – 1914) * Dubuque College (1914 – 1920) * Columbia College (1920 – 1939) * Loras College (1920 – present) Saint Raphael/ St. Bernard College In 1839, Bishop Mathias Loras of the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Dubuque
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in the northeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States. The Diocese of Dubuque was erected in 1837 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1893. It is a metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitan archdiocese with three suffragan dioceses: * Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Diocese of Davenport * Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Diocese of Des Moines * Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City, Diocese of Sioux City Territory and personnel The seat of the archdiocese is St. Raphael's Cathedral (Dubuque), St. Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque, named in honor of the Archangel Raphael (archangel), Raphael. As of 2024, the archbishop is Thomas Robert Zinkula, Thomas Zinkula. The archdiocese is one of a few American List of Catholic archdioceses#Current Latin in North America, archdioceses that is not based in a major metropolitan area. It in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Loras
Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras (August 30, 1792 – February 19, 1858) was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic priest in the United States who served as the first Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, Bishop of Dubuque, in what would become the state of Iowa. He was the first president of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, from 1830 to 1832, and is the founder of what is now known as Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque. Early life and ministry Mathias Loras was born to an Aristocracy (class), aristocratic family in Lyon, France, on August 30, 1792. He was a descendant of a French Nobles of the Robe, noble of the robe family. During the Reign of Terror in France, Loras' father and 16 other members of his family were put to death by guillotine. As a young man, he studied for the priesthood, along with St. John Vianney (the ''Curé d'Ars''). He was Ordination, ordained a priest around 1817 by Cardinal Joseph Fesch for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon, Archdioces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jackels
Mons. Michael Owen Jackels (born April 13, 1954) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the metropolitan archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque from 2013 to 2023. He previously served as the bishop of the Diocese of Wichita in Kansas. Jackels was consecrated bishop on April 4, 2005. Early life and education Michael Jackels was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, on April 13, 1954. A child of a military family, he lived in Wyoming, Spain and California before finally settling in Nebraska to complete his secondary studies. Jackels says that as a young man, he became a Buddhist. However, after reading a Bible from a Protestant co-worker at a country club, he decided to return to Catholicism. Jackels attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, then entered St. Pius X Seminary in Kentucky in 1975. He earned his Bachelor of Philosophy degree from St. Pius X in 1977. In 1981, Jackels completed his Master of Theology degree at Mt. Saint Mary's Sem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubuque, Iowa
Dubuque (, ) is a city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. The population was 59,667 at the 2020 United States census. The city lies along the Mississippi River at the junction of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a region locally known as the Tri-State Area. It serves as the main commercial, industrial, educational, and cultural center for the area. Geographically, it is part of the Driftless Area, a portion of North America that escaped all three phases of the Wisconsin Glaciation, resulting in a hilly topography unlike most of the Midwestern United States. Dubuque is a regional tourist destination featuring the city's unique architecture, casinos, and riverside location. It is home to five institutions of higher education. While Dubuque has historically been a center of manufacturing, the local economy also includes health care, publishing, and financial service sectors. History Spain gained control of the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. Iowa is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 26th largest in total area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 31st most populous of the List of states and territories of the United States, 50 U.S. states, with a population of 3.19 million. The state's List of capitals in the United States, capital, List of cities in Iowa, most populous city, and largest List of metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area fully located within the state is Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines. A portion of the larger Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, Omaha, Nebraska, metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdiocese Of Dubuque
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in the northeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States. The Diocese of Dubuque was erected in 1837 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1893. It is a metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitan archdiocese with three suffragan dioceses: * Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Diocese of Davenport * Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Diocese of Des Moines * Roman Catholic Diocese of Sioux City, Diocese of Sioux City Territory and personnel The seat of the archdiocese is St. Raphael's Cathedral (Dubuque), St. Raphael's Cathedral in Dubuque, named in honor of the Archangel Raphael (archangel), Raphael. As of 2024, the archbishop is Thomas Robert Zinkula, Thomas Zinkula. The archdiocese is one of a few American List of Catholic archdioceses#Current Latin in North America, archdioceses that is not based in a major metropolitan area. It in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Des Moines
The Diocese of Des Moines () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southwestern Iowa in the United States. It is a suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque. The see city for the diocese is Des Moines. The cathedral parish for the diocese is St. Ambrose. As of 2024, William Joensen is bishop of the Diocese of Des Moines. History 1830 to 1900 Like other American dioceses, the area that makes up the present diocese was under the jurisdiction of a number of prelates. Most of these were purely academic because of no actual Catholic presence in the area. The first Catholic missionaries arrived in the Iowa area during the early 1830s. They were under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Saint Louis, Joseph Rosati. In 1838, Pope Gregory XVI erected the new Diocese of Dubuque. This diocese initially included all of Iowa as well as a large part of the western United States. By 1850, the diocese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Dubuque, Iowa
Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education also follows a structured approach but occurs outside the formal schooling system, while informal education involves unstructured learning through daily experiences. Formal and non-formal education are categorized into levels, including early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, and tertiary education. Other classifications focus on teaching methods, such as teacher-centered and student-centered education, and on subjects, such as science education, language education, and physical education. Additionally, the term "education" can denote the mental states and qualities of educated individuals and the academic field studying educational phenomena. The precise definition of education is disputed, and there are disagreements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
