The Theology and Ministry Library is located on the Brighton Campus. Lay students in all programs study alongside Jesuit scholars. Laypersons comprise 65% of the students at the STM while 35% represent a religious order or are diocesan priests. The student body includes representatives from 27 nations and 6 continents, and students range in age from 21 to 74 years old. While the majority of students at the STM are Catholic, it is also home to a number of Anglican/ Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, Evangelical, Orthodox, Presbyterian, Unitarian Universalist, Nondenominational, Buddhist, and Hindu students. It offers both master and doctoral degrees, civil and ecclesiastical degrees, and a wide variety of continuing education offerings, including online programs through C21 Online.Įnrollment at the School of Theology and Ministry is approximately 420 students. The School of Theology and Ministry is both a graduate divinity school and an ecclesiastical faculty of theology regulated by the Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana (1979) and accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. In September 2015, Simboli Hall, home of the School of Theology and Ministry, was dedicated in recognition of alumnus and real estate developer Anthony C. These buildings formerly housed the chancery of the Archdiocese of Boston and portions of St. The reaffiliation of Weston Jesuit School of Theology with Boston College took place in 2008, and the new school was moved to Boston College's campus in Brighton, purchased in 2006. In December 2004, Boston College announced plans to create a School of Theology and Ministry by merging the Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Historically, the School of Theology at Weston College was listed in the Boston College course catalog as a constituent school of the university, with the names of theological degree graduates in the commencement program. Weston College expanded in 1927 to prepare men for ordination, and later to include religious and lay men and women, as the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Massachusetts within the Harvard University neighborhood, as a center of philosophy for the New England Province of the Jesuits which was located in Weston, Massachusetts.

Weston College opened in 1922 in Cambridge.

The School of Theology and Ministry was founded in the merger of Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Boston College Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry on June 1, 2008. It is an ecclesiastical faculty of theology that trains men and women, both lay and religious, for scholarship and service, especially within the Catholic Church. The Boston College School of Theology and Ministry ( STM) is a Jesuit school of graduate theology at Boston College.

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