President's Letter

Dear visitor to our website:

As we begin this summer time we are especially mindful of all of our seminarians during their pastoral ministry. We ask you to pray for them, as we do every day, so that their summer ministry experiences may be a very fruitful and blessed ones!

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Mission Statement

From its establishment by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, as a free-standing seminary in 1923 Notre Dame Seminary has, its primary mission, the preparation of men for ministerial priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church.  The seminary, through an integrated and balanced program of priestly formation, seeks to prepare pastors for the Church in the spirit of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd.  Read more...