Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
Catholic seminary (2008-)
The Gloria L. and Charles I. Clough School of Theology and Ministry (CSTM), previously the Weston School of Theology, is a Jesuit school of graduate theology at Boston College. 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.
History
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.
Weston College opened in 1922 in the Boston suburb of Weston, Massachusetts, as a center of philosophy for the New England Province of the Jesuits which was also located in Weston, Massachusetts. 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.
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’s graduates received Boston College degrees from 1959 to 1974. Weston Jesuit School of Theology relocated to the environs of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1968.
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. 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.
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