Bishop White
Bishop White
Bishop White College Seminary
Bishop White Seminary provides human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation for seminarians in the dioceses of the Western United States. We are a small seminary with a strong emphasis on community life and fraternal unity, which forms the basis for all other aspects of formation. Our men are very well-prepared to move from the Discipleship stage of Formation into the Configuration stage.
Adjacent to Gonzaga University
Bishop White Seminary is located adjacent to Gonzaga University, where men take many of their core classes. However, we are deliberate in emphasizing to the men that they are first and foremost seminarians taking college classes, not college students who live at a seminary. We also augment the men’s theological education with classes accredited through St. Patrick’s Seminary
Features of Bishop White
- Community living in a positive fraternal environment
- Close accompaniment by formators
- Proportionate emphasis on all dimensions of formation
- Daily Mass and community prayer
- Strong emphasis on regular personal prayer
- Process groups led by counselors
- Healthy culture of sports, recreation, and the arts
- Etiquette classes
- Integration Colloquia (on priestly ministry)
- Miserando: hands-on training in empathetic service to the poor
- Manual labor and house jobs such as cooking and cleaning
- Five-Day Healing Retreat
- Eight-Day Ignatian Retreat (for seniors)
Life at Bishop White
Our Men in Formation
See our sending dioceses and our men in formation