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The Society of the Divine Word (SVD) reports on its world-wide missionary activities. - Divine Word Missionaries: One Hundred Years in North America 1895-1995, Steyler Verlag, Nettetal 1994, 239 pp., ISBN 3-8050-0345-5. Steyler Missionswissenschaftliches Institut (ed.), Divine Word Missionaries in Papua New Guinea, 1896-1996, Festschrift.
Divine Word Seminary - Operated from 1947 to 1983; run by the Society of the Divine Word. St. Joseph Preparatory Seminary - Closed in 1992; operated by the Congregation of the Mission. ° Mother of the Savior Seminary, Blackwood, New Jersey, 1947–1967. Junior seminary operated by the Society of the Divine Savior.
Divine Word College – Run by the Society of the Divine Word; opened in 1931; St. Pius X Seminary at Loras College – Archdiocesan seminary; opened in 1839. Louisiana. Notre Dame Seminary (New Orleans) – Archdiocesan seminary; opened in 1923. St. Joseph Seminary College (St. Benedict) – Run by the Benedictine Monks; opened in 1891.
The School of Theology had graduates already from the school years 1964–1969, but there was no official appointment of a dean for the school. The school's entity was closely associated with the rector, thus there was no official appointment for a dean until the start of the school-year 1969. Fr. Antonio Pernia, SVD, STD 2020–present
In 1931, the Society purchased property in Epworth, Iowa, where it established St. Paul's Mission House, an SVD high school seminary. In 1964, Divine Word College replaced the high school seminary and has since served as the principal site of SVD undergraduate seminary education in the United States. [6] [7]
After completing his theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Father Lovasik was ordained a missionary priest of the Society of the Divine Word on August 14, 1938. [ 1 ] Lovasik was assigned to St. Paul's Mission House in Epworth, Iowa (1939–1941) where he helped prepare students for the priesthood.
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It was opened on July 14, 1947 as a diocesan school owned by the Diocese of Tagbilaran and operated by the Divine Word Missionaries. The school was given the name Holy Name College. In 1963, the SVD gained full ownership of the college. It was renamed Divine Word College of Tagbilaran in recognition of it being a full-fledged SVD school.