Mission
The Colegio Seminario is a Catholic educational institution belonging to the Society of Jesus. We offer, through an educational community rooted in Ignatian pedagogy and spirituality, a comprehensive, humanistic, inclusive and innovative education, inspired by the values of the Gospel that seeks to form mature, simple, competent and honest people, who know how to love faithfully, who can develop their life and with it their profession, in response to God's call to serve others.
Vision
We seek to consolidate a Catholic and Ignatian educational community, which through collaborative and networked work, and having as its horizon the search for MAGIS and human excellence in our work forms:
- Contemplative people in action, creative and innovative, capable of committing to the reality of their time and the care of Creation, from a compassionate perspective and with social justice.
- People who have a life project, are the protagonists of their learning and enjoy it, thus being competent from an integral perspective.
Values
A deep formation in faith in dialogue with other religions and worldviews.
Quality policy
In order to incorporate into our routines a way of proceeding that makes us more effective when pursuing the objectives that drive our entire institutional life, and to have specific instruments adapted to our way of working, since 2008 the College has periodically updated its certification in the process of Cura Personalis –an expression that refers to a basic characteristic of the education of the Society of Jesus– with the UNIT ISO 9001 Standard – Quality Management Systems, recognized worldwide.
Strategic plan
The Strategic Planning process at the School is part of our tradition of reviewing and diagnosing the current situation in order to plan our work in the medium and long term, and to organize and align efforts and define the guidelines and central axes of work that contribute to our Mission. Our current plan particularly addresses the challenge of innovation and educational transformation.
History
The shield of the Seminary College
Our shield represents the tradition of an institution of the Society of Jesus located in a specific place, Montevideo, which comprehensively trains its students in an attitude of service to others.
The lower part places the Institution in its geographical location, symbolized by the Montevideo Hill, crowned by the fortress. Above the sky, in black letters on a silver banner, the motto of the College: UT SERVIAM, “so that I may serve.”
The Loyola family crest expresses one of the House's virtues: hospitality, symbolised by two sable (black) wolves on a silver field. It means that the Loyola family's hospitality is such that it extends even to the wild beasts of the mountains.
After the battle of Beotíbar in 1321, the Oñaz family received this coat of arms from King Alfonso XI in recognition of the outstanding performance of his seven sons in the conflict. On a gold field (nobility, heroism, loyalty) there are seven blood-coloured stripes, the blood shed in battle by the seven sons of the Lord of Oñaz.
