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St. Pius X Minor Seminary is the preparatory seminary in the Archdiocese of Karachi, Pakistan. It had 21 seminarians in April 2008. Father Benjamin Shehzad is the seminary’s rector.

Due to congestion and other problems a new, larger seminary building is to be constructed on ground adjacent to St. Jude's Church in Karachi. Archbishop Evarist Pinto performed the groundbreaking on the 2,044 square meter site. Construction of the seminary will begin in October 2008, with completion targeted for October 2009.

St. Pius X Minor Seminary opened in 1958 in what is now the Apostolic Prefecture of Quetta in Baluchistan Province. It was shifted to Catholic Colony in Karachi in 1973.

St. Pius X Minor Seminary is one of four minor seminaries educating 92 seminarians in Faisalabad, Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi. Major seminary studies are split between St. Francis Xavier Seminary in Lahore, where 41 seminarians are studying philosophy, and Christ the King Seminary in Karachi, where 23 seminarians who have finished their study of philosophy are studying theology. ^[1]

Rectors

• Fr. Joseph Cordeiro – 1952 - 1958^[2]
• Fr. Francis de Souza – 1958 – 1965 ^[3]
• Fr. Luperc Mascarenhas – 1965 - 1990
• Fr. James deSouza – 1990 – 1994
• Fr. Joe D’Mello – 1994 - 2001
• Fr. Augustine Soares – 2001 - 2005
• Fr. Ben Shahzad – 2005 -

References

1. ^ "UCANews.com 14 April 2008". http://www.ucanews.com/2008/04/14/growing-vocations-boost-plan-to-switch-minor-seminary.  
2. ^ "UCANews.com February 14, 1994". http://www.ucanews.com/1994/02/14/cardinal-cordeiro-first-pakistani-cardinal-dies-in-karachi/?key=bonaventure+paul+.  
3. ^ Christian Voice, Karachi, August 31, 2008