Petit Séminaire of Quebec
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Petit Séminaire of Quebec (French: Petit Séminaire de Québec) is a Roman Catholic seminary in Quebec City founded by Monsignor François de Laval, the first bishop of New France in 1663. [1]
Founded as a school for priests, it later was split into a minor seminary (the Petit Séminaire itself, lit. "little seminary") and a seminary proper (the Grand Séminaire,lit. "large seminary"). Nowadays, the Petit Séminaire is a private catholic secondary school.
A large amount of the French-Canadian clergy of the 18th and 19th century, as well as innumerable academics, went through the Petit Séminaire before higher education became widely accessible. Until 1970, the Superior of the Seminary was also the Rector of Université Laval, which was originally an offshoot of it.
