Studium Theologicum Jerosolymitanum (STJ)
The StudiumTheologicumJerosolymitanum was founded at St. Saviour’s Monastery in 1866 by the Custody of the Holy Land as a Grand Seminary in order to form its own candidates to priesthood.
Affiliated in 1971 with the PontificioAteneoAntonianum of Rome (PontificiaUniversitàAntonianum) , STJ has the faculty to confer a Bachelor’s degree in Sacred Theology (STB).
From 1982, the STJ became an integral part (undergraduate) of the StudiumBiblicumFrancescanum (SBF), Jerusalem section of the Faculty of Theology of the PUA. With the addition in 1987 of the two year study of Philosophy based at Bethlehem’s St. Catherine’s Convent, transferred in Jerusalem in 2004, the STJ includes the entire undergraduate level of the Faculty of Theology.
As a university institution of the Church, the STJ also welcomes, besides the Franciscan seminarians, other religious and lay people – men and women that have the necessary requirements.
| Administration and faculty | |
| Dean | Rev. Rosario Pierri, OFM |
| Moderator | Rev. Nicolás Márquez, OFM |
| Secretary | Sr. Marina Fischer |