Institution

Séminaire de Québec

1663 · 17th century

The Séminaire de Québec is a Catholic seminary founded in 1663 by François de Laval, first bishop of Quebec, to train priests for New France. It became the centre of the colonial church and of education in Canada, and in 1852 it founded Université Laval, the first French-language university in North America.

Séminaire de Québec
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Séminaire de Québec. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/seminaire-de-quebec
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