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Sacred Heart Major Seminary is an institution of higher education that primarily prepares candidates for the Roman Catholic Priesthood and, further, prepares individuals for the diaconate, lay ministry and other leadership roles. Sacred Heart Major Seminary seeks to provide an excellent undergraduate formation based on an emphasis in Philosophy and ministry that will serve as a sound foundation to pursue theological studies. The graduate Theology programs seek to ensure a clearly Catholic professional and academic formation for ministerial service. Mission Identity Sacred Heart Major Seminary is an educational ecclesial community proclaiming the Truth, who is Jesus Christ, within the communion of the Roman Catholic Church, from whose authoritative shepherds the seminary has received its mission. The seminary accomplishes the mission entrusted to it through the higher education conducted in the College of Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of Theology, supported by the Institute for Ministry.

These components primarily are directed to the human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation of candidates for the ministerial priesthood � wherein, by sacramental ordination a man is configured to Christ, the Head and Shepherd of the Church, and consecrated for service to the whole People of God � and of candidates for the diaconate configured to Christ the Servant. These components are further directed to the professional formation of the lay faithful, who as members of both the Church and human society share a mutual communion and collaboration by baptism with the clergy, and who seek to minister in the Church and be a leaven in society. The seminary seeks to prepare all students to serve with sensitivity in the diverse communities and variety of cultures, which make up the Church in the United States.

The College of Liberal Arts, through its undergraduate degrees (AAM, AB, BPhil) and diploma programs, aims at the cultivation of those theoretical and active excellences which belong to free human beings. The School of Theology, through its graduate degrees (MDIV, MAPS, MA, STB, STL) and diploma programs, aims at the integral formation of those dispositions and skills required by those who will minister in the Church. The Institute for Ministry facilitates the matriculation and progress of the lay candidates in the degrees and diplomas of Sacred Heart Major Seminary, collaborates with the Central Service Departments of the Archdiocese of Detroit, and offers continuing educational opportunities at the seminary. Sacred Heart Major Seminary strives to be a community that manifests the Heart of Christ in the Church and society and to form that same heart in all its students.