IMPACT
Your Generosity Shapes Lives and Strengthens the Future of the Church
Every gift to St. Peter's Seminary Foundation is an investment in people. Through the generosity of faithful donors, the Seminary is able to educate, form, and support seminarians, permanent deacons, and lay students who are called to serve the Church with wisdom, compassion, and faith. Together, we are helping prepare the spiritual leaders who will accompany individuals, families, and communities through every season of life.
The impact of your generosity extends far beyond the Seminary's classrooms. It is reflected in every parish strengthened, every student inspired, every family comforted, every person cared for, and every community enriched by faithful leadership. Whether supporting student financial assistance, academic excellence, priestly formation, or the Seminary's highest priority needs, every gift helps ensure that St. Peter's Seminary continues its vital mission for generations to come.
Highest Priority Needs
Every gift to St. Peter’s Seminary through the Foundation strengthens the Seminary’s mission of forming faithful, compassionate and capable spiritual leaders. While donors may choose to support a specific area of interest, giving to the Seminary’s Highest Priority Needs ensures the most immediate needs are met.
Your investment helps remove barriers to formation, enrich the student experience, sustain academic excellence, and preserve the Seminary as a place where future generations will prepare to serve the Church and the world.
Together, these priorities ensure that those called to lead can answer that call with confidence, knowing they have the support of a community that believes in their future.
Bishop Fabbro Fund for Priestly Formation
In honour of Bishop Fabbro’s 24 years of service to the people of the Diocese of London, the Bishop Fabbro Fund for Priestly Formation provides flexible support where it is needed most to prepare future priests for lives of faithful ministry.
From formation programs and spiritual development to academic resources and pastoral experiences, this fund ensures seminarians receive the comprehensive education and formation needed to serve the Church with wisdom, compassion, and integrity. Every gift helps prepare spiritual leaders to accompany countless people throughout their lives.
Student Financial Aid
No one should be prevented from answering God's call because of financial circumstances. Student Financial Aid helps seminarians, permanent deacon candidates, and lay students pursue their formation without the burden of overwhelming financial hardship. Your generosity removes barriers, opens doors to opportunity, and enables future spiritual leaders to focus on their vocation and on preparation for a lifetime of service.
Chairs
Endowed Chairs strengthen the Seminary's academic excellence by supporting distinguished faculty who educate, mentor, and inspire future Church leaders. These positions ensure that students receive a rich theological education rooted in the Catholic tradition and engage thoughtfully with the challenges of today's world. An investment in academic leadership is an investment in generations of graduates who will teach, preach, and lead with confidence and wisdom.
Preserving Our Campus
The Seminary is more than a historic building—it is a place of prayer, learning, community, and formation. Support for the Physical Plant preserves and maintains the campus, ensuring students can continue to learn and grow in a safe, welcoming, and inspiring environment. Caring for this remarkable home of formation safeguards a legacy that has served the Church since 1926 and will continue to serve future generations.
BY THE NUMBERS
Your generosity creates lasting impact—one life, one vocation, one generation at a time.
$300,000
The estimated investment required to educate and form one seminarian over eight years, including room and board.
921
Priests ordained at St. Peter's Seminary since 1912, serving communities across Canada and around the world.
15,500
Meals prepared each year, fostering community and supporting the daily rhythm of Seminary life and formation.
IMPACT STORY
A New Creation: The Unfolding Vocation of Father Frank Quinn
After a long and rewarding career as a Regional Director at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, he was ordained to the Priesthood on May 1, 2025 for the Archdiocese of Moncton.
For 42 years, Frank Quinn dedicated his life to a single noble calling: being husband to his beloved Helena and a devoted father. He likens their marriage to a new creation— “the two shall become one”—a bond so deep that her passing in 2019 left him feeling like a shell of his former self.
Being used to managing significant responsibilities, he now faced a quiet emptiness. In that emptiness, a gentle call grew. Attending Mass, he’d find himself thinking, “Who’s going to say Mass?” The hymn “I, the Lord of Sea and Sky” resonated deeply, and the prayer “Your will, not mine, Lord” became a recurring refrain. He paid attention. After discerning with his Bishop, guided by a Vocations Director and a spiritual director for more than a year, he arrived at St. Peter’s Seminary—trading a high-profile career for a classroom with peers the age of his grandchildren, supported wholeheartedly by the seminary’s faculty.
His journey was not without hardship. During Holy Week of 2024, he experienced a heart attack, collapsed days later, and spent a critical 40 days recovering at University Hospital—a period he viewed through the perspective of the Easter season. Throughout it all, his calling became stronger.
While in hospital in London, he asked a visiting priest, instead of spending time with him, to administer Viaticum to a struggling Italian couple nearby. The husband had been told that there was no hope of recovery. As was his nature, he prioritized their needs over his own.
On May 1, 2025, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Moncton. His chalice, a gift recast from diocesan archives, was presented to him through the Archbishop by Aracely, a dear friend from the seminary, symbolizing for him how God has woven the threads of his life into a sacred tapestry.
Now, as Associate Pastor for the Queen of All Saints Parish Grouping in New Brunswick, Father Quinn brings his lived experience to visiting the sick and supporting his community—a duty that comes naturally.
“We all have different roads,” he reflects. “This one wasn’t my plan. But I guess it was the plan.” Father Quinn’s late vocation reminds us that God’s call can transform a life already richly lived, planting our past experiences as seeds for a harvest of grace.
Impact Stories
Learn more about your impact
Every gift has a purpose and every donor has questions. Explore the topics below to learn more about the Seminary's mission, the Foundation's priorities, and how your generosity helps shape the future of the Church.
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The Foundation supports a variety of initiatives that strengthen St. Peter's Seminary today and for generations to come. While donors are welcome to direct their gifts to a specific fund or purpose, unrestricted gifts to the Seminary's highest priority needs provide the flexibility to respond to emerging opportunities and the areas of greatest need. These gifts help ensure that students, faculty, facilities, and formation programs receive the support they need when it matters most.
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The formation of a priest is a comprehensive journey that extends far beyond academic study. Over approximately eight years, seminarians participate in intellectual, spiritual, pastoral, and human formation designed to prepare them for a lifetime of ministry. This process helps develop compassionate, knowledgeable, and faithful leaders who are equipped to accompany God's people through every stage of life.
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The Foundation is committed to honouring every gift with integrity, transparency, and accountability. Donations are managed according to each donor's wishes and are overseen through sound governance and responsible financial stewardship. Our commitment is to ensure that every contribution creates meaningful and lasting impact while maintaining the trust placed in us by our supporters.
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Every act of generosity contributes to the Seminary's mission of forming future priests and lay leaders. Your support helps provide scholarships, educational resources, spiritual formation, academic excellence, and the care of the Seminary's historic campus. The impact of your gift extends far beyond today's students, reaching the countless individuals and communities they will serve throughout their lives.
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For more than a century, St. Peter's Seminary has prepared leaders who faithfully serve the Church in parishes, schools, hospitals, chaplaincies, and communities throughout Canada and beyond. By supporting the Foundation, you invest in a mission that strengthens the Church today while ensuring future generations have compassionate and well-formed spiritual leaders to accompany them.
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Many supporters choose to create a lasting legacy through endowed or planned gifts that continue to support the Seminary well into the future. These gifts ensure that future generations will benefit from exceptional formation while reflecting the donor's own values and commitment to the Church's mission. A legacy gift is an enduring investment in faith, hope, and service.