immaculate conception major seminary

The Immaculate Conception Major Seminary started as an Institute of Formation in November of 1983, through the efforts and inspiration of his Most Rev. Cirilio R. Almario, Jr., D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Malolos. Its first Rector was Msgr. Fernando G. Gutierrez. On December 4,1984, the college seminary was inaugurated by Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila and the Most Rev. Bruno Torpigliani, Papal Nuncio to the Philippines. In 1986, the Department of Education, Culture and Sports gave it full recognition as a College. Thus the seminary confers the Degree in Bachelor of Arts (Classical Philosophy) in 1988. Then in 1987, the Immaculate Conception Theology Department was born. By February of 1992, the Theology building was blessed and inaugurated by the Most Rev. Gian Vincenzo Moreni, then Papal Nuncio to the Philippines. Its first graduates were ordained on February 28, 1992. Today, after the full recognition by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in 1994, the Immaculate Conception Seminary, Graduate School of Theology also confers Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry and Master of Arts in Theological Studies.