It is the oldest Shiite seminary in the world, and its clerics have played pivotal roles in Middle Eastern history.

It was the oldest Jesuit seminary in the United States.

Eight years later, it absorbed an older Presbyterian seminary in Danville, Kentucky.

Union, the oldest nondenominational seminary in the nation, has been struggling financially.

The library and the museum containing Roman antiquities, sculptures, and a picture gallery are housed in the old ecclesiastical seminary.

ICCST is one of the oldest Catholic seminaries in the United States.

It was the second oldest Orthodox seminary in the World (After the Spiritual Academy in Kyiv), and it operates to this day.

Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis is one of the oldest fundamentalist Christian seminaries in the United States.

Union Theological Seminary is the oldest Protestant seminary in the Philippines.