St Joseph Inter-Diocesan Seminary

St Joseph's Interdiocesan seminary, Mangalore is in the heart of the city and trains candidates to priesthood for many dioceses and a few religious congregations of India. The Administration of the Seminary is under the dioceses of Mangalore, Calicut, Kannur and Udupi with the Bishop of Mangalore as its chairman. In the past 145 years of its existence, the seminary has formed over 3000 priests of whom 51 have become bishops.

The seminary takes care of the holistic formation of seminarians and students. Academics is managed by St Joseph Institute of Theology, affiliated to the Pontifical Urban University, Rome, which confers the Bachelor's degree. Currently, the Institute has 12 resident professors, 25 visiting professors and 151 students in Philosophy and Theology departments. The seminary has an attractive campus with a full-fledged library, class rooms with modern facilities, chapel and play grounds. Since the seminary has students from all over the country unity in diversity, has been its specialty.