They established a clergy training centre at Vaipikotta to train native clergy in Occidental style.

They accepted this system as part of the culture of the people and opposed his democratic desire to train local clergy.

He became president of the school he founded, one originally intended to train clergy.

At that time the primary task was to train clergy and catechist for the diocese.

The encyclical first turned to the bishops and superiors in charge of the Catholic missions, noting the need to train local clergy.

The Patriarchal church lost its ability to train new clergy in 1928 after its advanced theological studies in Leningrad "voluntarily closed".

The principal aim of this school was to train qualified clergy for the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Its purpose is to train clergy for the church through a distance study format.

Its initial focus was to train clergy.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate has limited rights to train clergy and freely elect the Ecumenical Patriarch.