Father Banas was then assigned to Notre Dame, while also teaching at two seminaries.
He attended two seminaries in Illinois and received a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
He trained for the priesthood, & was dismissed from two seminaries; he became a "bishop" in a quasi-political underground cult called the Orthodox Old Catholic Church of North America.
After another year of studies at the University of Rome, he taught at two seminaries before coming to Princeton, where he earned a master's degree in classics in 1962.
He earned a doctorate in theology from Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan and wrote "Which Way to Lutheran Unity?" In 1969, he became president of Concordia, the larger of the two seminaries of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
"Concerning hunger, unemployment, human rights - we want to impart a more critical and less fatalistic religiosity," said Ivonne Gebara, a nun and theology professor at the Theology Institute of Recife, one of the two seminaries here which is to close next month on the orders of the Vatican.
In 1851 the Florida Legislature voted to establish two seminaries of higher education on opposite sides of the Suwannee River.
Priests serving in the Archdiocese of Miami are required to speak both Spanish and English, and these two seminaries are the only bilingual seminaries in the United States.
Educational institutions consist of two schools for the disabled, 60 elementary/middle schools, 13 high schools, two universities, and two seminaries.
The Reformed Church in America (RCA) operates two seminaries in the United States New Brunswick Theological Seminary and the Western Theological Seminary founded in 1866 in Holland, Michigan.
