Christ the King Seminary (Pakistan)

Christ the King Seminary
TypeSeminary
Established1956; 68 years ago (1956)
Religious affiliation
Catholicism
Academic affiliation
University of Melbourne
RectorFr. Kamran Taj
Students72 (2019)
Address
Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town
, , ,
Pakistan

24°54′33″N 67°4′6″E / 24.90917°N 67.06833°E / 24.90917; 67.06833
LanguageEnglish and Urdu
Sister institutionNational Catholic Institute of Theology
Students from:Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Italy, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka.

The Christ the King Seminary is a Roman Catholic seminary in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town, Karachi, Pakistan; located in adjacent to the Portiuncula Friary. In its early years most of the faculty were provided by the Franciscans. It has been described as "the pioneering theological institution for the Catholic Church in Pakistan."[1]

The high-water mark of the seminary's 50-year existence was the recruitment of 98 seminarians for the class that entered in 1990.

  1. ^ Hedlund, R. E.; et al. (2011). The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity. Oxford University Press.