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Divine Word Academy of Dagupan – Rizal Ext., Dagupan, Pangasinan; Divine Word High School – Dana-ili, Abulug, Cagayan; Divine Word High School – Sanchez-Mira, Cagayan; Academy of St.Joseph – Claveria, Cagayan; Divine Word Formation Center – Don Filemon Sotto Drive, Cebu City; Divine Word Formation Center – Bayaoas, Urdaneta, Pangasinan
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.
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]
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
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.
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.
The area's name derived from St. Joseph's Technical School, which the religious congregation established in 1901 and operated for twelve years. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] St. Mary's Mission Seminary , the first of its kind which prepared priests and Brothers for foreign missions, was opened by the Divine Word Missionaries in 1909.
By 1981, a search for a more permanent site began. An intensive investigation led to the 1985 purchase of Ridge School, a closed public school in Arlington Heights, Illinois. A massive reconstruction project was completed in 1990 and the Leadership Team and administrative staff moved into the Living Word Center in February, 1990. [1]