Ridsdale told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse he would have chatted with Pell, who is now a cardinal, but he did not tell him about his issues with children since his time in the seminary.
The Greek Orthodox seminary on the island of Halki remains shut, despite repeated pledges that it would soon reopen.
Soong Chan-Rah, a Korean-American pastor and professor of evangelism at Chicago's North Park seminary, says the rise in multicultural evangelical churches coincides with a decline in the numbers of traditional white evangelicals, and that the newer kind practise a form of evangelical Christianity distinct from the "white, middle-class and Southern" version.
Father Stephen Wang, of Allen Hall seminary in London, counts men from Africa, India and Australia in this year's cohort of 54.Movements such as "Youth 2000" and World Youth Day encourage vocations through what has been called "evangelical Catholicism", says Father Wang, in which the faith is "more confident" about presenting itself.
Hojatoleslam Fazel Maybodi teaches at Qom's Mofid University, a traditionally liberal seminary.
Among the opposite-minded clerics, who look to an Islamic government dominated by the seminary, Mr Hakim's main competitor is Moqtada al-Sadr, a young and theologically junior member of an important clerical family.The late Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, one of several senior ayatollahs whom Saddam Hussein arranged to be killed, agreed substantially with Khomeini on the necessity of clerical rule.
He began his priestly training, in 1942, in an underground seminary kept secret from the Nazis; after his ordination, in 1946, he worked in a church that was a brave alternative to atheistic secular power.
In an apparent response, police in the Shia seminary city of Qom detained three of his grandsons, along with relatives of other dissident clerics.A lot of ordinary Iranians, including many who used to back the conservatives, scorn Mr Ahmadinejad's claim to have foiled a foreign plot.
But they also fear Mr Sadr.In Qom, Iran's main seminary town, Mr Sadr's few supporters rally around Ayatollah Kazem Haeri, the cleric to whom, at least notionally, Mr Sadr defers in matters of theology and law.
It was intended as beleaguered German Orthodoxy's answer to the Jüdisch-Theologische Seminar in Breslau (now Wroclaw, in Poland), the crucible of Conservative Judaism, and the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, the Reform rabbinical seminary, also in Berlin.
Indeed, she and her fellows have since set up shop in another seminary, outside Islamabad.There, they like to rage against the government, the army, America and, this month, our correspondent.
