Sacred Heart Church (), popularly known as Iglesia del Seminario, is a

Roman Catholic parish church In the Catholic Church, a parish () is a stable community of the faithful within a particular church, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a pastor#Catholicism, parish priest (Latin: ''parochus''), under the authority of the diocesan Bishop ( ...

Montevideo, Uruguay Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coa ...

. It was established on 9 April 1891. Held by the

Society of Jesus The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 ...

, it is dedicated to the

Sacred Heart The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus () is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus Christ is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This devotion to Christ is p ...

. As the building was originally part of a

seminary A seminary, school of theology, theological college, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in scripture and theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as cle ...

(nowadays a school, Colegio Seminario).

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