Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a pastoral care strategy for the affirmation of the dignity of the poor Black older persons. In this study there is a discussion of how the poor Black older persons suffered the defacement of their dignity under Apartheid and how to a large extent their dignity is still being defaced under the new democratic dispensation in South Africa. These poor Black older persons are victims of various forms of older person abuse. They experience the prejudice of ageism intensely as it is exacerbated by racism; and with no appropriate medical and health strategies in place to provide quality health care; and with inappropriate housing, social services, and residential care services, their dignity is denied. Due to past discriminatory laws and policies these vulnerable older persons suffer the consequences of low levels of formal education within an environment of engineered poverty and racial discrimination which made it impossible for them to enter into quality employment which would enable them to provide adequately for old age. The deprivation thus experienced made it difficult for them to flourish economically and otherwise. At present they are still marginalised and they experience intense forms of loneliness. These poor Black older persons continue to suffer humiliation and indignity in spite of legislation and policies purporting to ensure their well-being. Within a society embracing a neo-liberalist philosophy they are considered unimportant as they do not contribute productively to the economic well-being of the community and are therefore relegated to the lowest ranks of society. With the effacement of their dignity through socially constructed systems their human development is seriously hampered, resulting in a disintegration of human wholeness. The inequality that the poor Black older persons suffer is an indictment against humanity as these older persons have the right to feel at home on the planet. Due to the fact that they are not recognised as having been created in the image and likeness of God, their uniqueness and distinctness as human beings are denied, their identities distorted, and they are not considered worthy citizens. In order to affirm the dignity of the poor Black older persons a practical theological methodology as proposed by Osmer (2008) and consisting of four tasks, has been employed. The notion of a moral economy for the affirmation of the dignity of these poor Black older persons has been utilised. With the moral economy orientation linked with a Liberation Theology methodology the dignity of the poor Black older persons is affirmed as a personal attribute based on the older persons being a category of people being carried into old age by God, enjoying privileged positions of honour and respect, and being eschatological signs and symbols of God’s goodwill towards restored communities in Christ. Within a moral economy the values of reciprocity, responsibility, and interdependence are used to affirm the dignity of these older persons intergenerationally and contextually. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is ʼn pastorale sorg strategie vir die bevestiging van die menswaardigheid van die arm Swart ouer persone. In hierdie studie word daar aangedui hoe die arm Swart ouer persone se menswaardigheid onder Apartheid en in ‘n groot mate in die nuwe demokratiese dispensasie geskend is. Die arm Swart ouer persone het die slagoffers geword van verskeie vorms van misbruik. Die diskriminasie teen ouderdom word intensief deur hulle ervaar soos dit vererger word deur rassisme; en met geen behoorlike mediese en gesondheidstrategieë in plek om in die behoefte van hierdie kwesbare ouer persone te voorsien nie; en met gebrekkige behuising, sosiale dienste en onvoldoende plekke van sorg vir ouer mense, is die menswaardigheid van hierdie ouer mense erg misken. Weens historiese diskriminerende wette en regeringbeleid ly hierdie kwesbare ouer persone die gevolge van lae vlakke van formele opvoeding binne ‘n omgewing waar armoede kunsmatig geskep is en waar rassediskriminasie geheers het. Hierdie omstandighede het dit vir hulle onmoontlik gemaak om kwaliteit werk te kry wat hulle in staat sou stel om toepaslik vir die ouderdom voor te berei. Die ontberinge wat gevolglik gely word, maak hulle ekonomiese en andersydse ontwikkeling onmoontlik. Hulle is gemarginaliseerd en ly aan intense eensaamheid. Hierdie arm Swart ouer persone gaan voort om vernedering en onmenswaardighede te ly ongeag van wetgewing en beleidstukke bedoel vir hul welsyn. Binne die gemeenskap wat ‘n neoliberalisties filosofie aanvaar, word hierdie ouer mense misken omdat hulle nie produktief tot die ekonomiese welvaart van die gemeenskap bydra nie, en daarom word hulle beskou as sonder enige sosiale kapitaal wat hulle dan sosio-ekonomies op die laagste vlak van die gemeenskap sonder enige erkenning van hulle menswaarde en menswaardigheid plaas. Met die skending van hul menswaardigheid deur sosiaal gekonstrueerde sisteme word hul menslike opbloei ernstig gestrem wat lei tot die disintegrasie van menslike heelheid binne die demokratiese bestel van die Republiek van Suid- Afrika. Die ongelykheid wat die arm Swart ouer mense ly is ‘n klag teen die mensdom omdat hierdie ouer mense ontuis voel op die planeet. Hierdie groep is na die beeld van God geskape, maar hulle uniekheid en besondersheid word miskien. Om die menswaardigheid van hierdie arm Swart ouer mense na te gaan, is ’n praktiese teologiese metodologie gebruik soos voorgestel deur Osmer (2008) en word die vier teologiese take soos deur hierdie metodologie voorgestel, gevolg. Betreffende die vierde taak van hierdie metodologie is die konsep van ’n morele ekonomie gebruik vir die bevestiging van die menswaardigheid van die arm Swart ouer persone. Met die skakel van hierdie morele ekonomiese oriёntering met die Bevrydingsteologiese metodologie is die menswaardigheid van die arm Swart ouer persone bevestig as ’n persoonlike eienskap gebaseer of die feit dat hulle ’n kategorie van mense is wat deur God in die ouderdom gedra word, wat dan bevoorregte posisies van eer en respek geniet as eskatologiese tekens en simbole van God se toegeneëntheid teenoor herstelde gemeenskappe in Christus. Binne ’n morele ekonomie word die waardes van wedersydsheid, verantwoordelikheid, en interafhanklikheid gebruik om die menswaardigheid van hierdie ouer mense intergenerasioneel en kontekstueel te bevestig.

Orientador: Ruy de Oliveira Andrade Filho / Banca: Ana Paula Tavares Magalhães Taconi / Banca: Leila Rodrigues da Silva / Resumo: O nome Venantius Fortunatus é bem representado nas coleções bibliográficas, mas quase todos os trabalhos concentram se em sua produção poética. Assim, parecem-nos bastante esquecidos pela crítica os escritos hagiográficos em prosa desse autor. O presente estudo pretende sob um ângulo que nos sugere ainda insuficientemente considerado, devido ao vasto campo de estudos que permitem as referidas fontes documentais analisar a adaptação hagiográfica de uma idealizada identidade episcopal construída em favor dos bispos gauleses do último quarto do sexto século, que pretendiam utilizar as imagens dos santos predecessores que ocuparam as suas respectivas sés, para afirmarem e/ou construírem sua autoridade religiosa e política frente à sua comunidade de fiéis e às autoridades públicas do reino franco. / Abstract: Venantius Fortunatus is well represented in bibliographical collections, but most literature concentrates on his poetic production. As a consequence, little attention has been paid to his hagiographyc writings in prose. This work intends to analyse -even if it is from a still insufficiently developed perspective, due to the vast array of studies that these documental sources may prompt-- how Gaulish bishops' of the last quarter of the sixth century built an idealized Episcopal identity through the images of those saints who had previously occupied their respective cathedrals. This was done in order to build up and/or strengthen their religious and political authority before their community of faithful and the public authorities of the Frankish kingdom. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Carla de Melo Martins.pdf: 1507790 bytes, checksum: d79541f03285faede6a7124b721e4418 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Ubiquity in Brazilian Catholicism turns it into a rich object of analysis in order to understand the effectual culture at different regions of the country. It is a religion that has extended its characteristics over different features of Brazilian regionalism and, at the same time, follows the historical, cultural and political transitions of the country. The research focused upon the conjunctural analysis of Catholicism in the state of São Paulo favors the place of elaboration of elementary meanings for the catholic structural organization in face of a contemporary modernity, without which it would not be possible to reach its superstructure that has come along with processes of complexification of global societies. The Episcopal Seminary of São Paulo, founded in 1856, is evaluated in this research as a structuring element of the Brazilian Catholicism in the second half of the 19th century. Based on the premises of Cultural History, built on the basis of Anthropology and Sociology of culture, religion is a place of language production, a means of communication which, as such, produces a structure of knowledge. In order to reach certification of this classification of Catholicism which legitimates practices and social-cultural representations in the territory of São Paulo, we analyzed documents produced and used by the Episcopal Seminary of São Paulo, commemorative polyantheas; meeting minutes; statutes and intern regulations; accountancy books, personal correspondences, among others which constituted the structuring basis of the educational system that was applied there. The Seminary of São Paulo was founded to serve the interests, not only of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, which turned the Catholicism into an universal religion, but also to attend the interests of the Brazilian Crown regarding the support of conservative ideals which were being threatened by the political liberalism. The education divulged at the Seminary contributed to the formation of a group of conservative intellectuals, who defended a hierarchic political order, a theological philosophy permeated by medieval metaphysics references, and a religious doctrine that legitimated the permanence of the clergymen oriented by the Pope of Rome as the holders of true Christian tradition / A ubiqüidade do catolicismo brasileiro faz dele um rico objeto de análise para a compreensão da cultura vigente nas diferentes regiões do país. Trata-se de uma religião que estendeu suas características sobre os diferentes traços do regionalismo brasileiro que, ao mesmo tempo, acompanha as transições político-culturais históricas do país. A pesquisa voltada à análise conjuntural do catolicismo paulista privilegia o local da elaboração de significados elementares da organização estrutural do catolicismo frente à modernidade contemporânea, sem os quais não seria possível atingir a sua superestrutura, que tem acompanhado os processos de complexificação das sociedades globais. O Seminário Episcopal de São Paulo, fundado em 1856, é nesta pesquisa avaliado como um elemento estruturante do catolicismo brasileiro, na segunda metade do século XIX. Partindo das premissas da História Cultural, construída sobre as bases da Antropologia e Sociologia da Cultura, a religião é um local de produção de linguagem, instrumento de comunicação, que, como tal, produz uma estrutura de conhecimento. Para se chegar à constatação dessa classificação do catolicismo que legitima práticas e representações socioculturais em território paulistano, são analisados os documentos produzidos e utilizados pelo Seminário Episcopal de São Paulo, poliantéias comemorativas; atas de reunião; pequenas publicações das festas comemorativas; estatutos e regulamentos interno; livros de contabilidade, correspondências pessoais, entre outros que constituíram as bases estruturantes do sistema de ensino que ali se aplicava. O Seminário de São Paulo foi fundado para atender aos interesses tanto da hierarquia católica romana, que tornava o catolicismo uma religião internacional, como da Coroa Brasileira, que visava a manutenção dos ideais monárquicos que estavam sendo ameaçados pelo liberalismo político. A educação propalada no Seminário colaborou para a formação de um quadro de intelectuais conservadores, que defendiam uma ordem política hierárquica, uma filosofia-teológica permeada pelos referencias da metafísica medieval, e uma doutrina religiosa que legitimava a permanência dos clérigos, sob orientação do papa de Roma, como portadores da verdadeira tradição cristã

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Altemeyer Jr.pdf: 12259291 bytes, checksum: fb57df185112acef9388696acec59ae9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-11 / The main hypothesis of this thesis is that compassion can be a methodological and interpretive guide for the social work developed by the S. Paulo Archdiocesan Vicariate for Street People. The thesis is divided into three parts: memories, theoretical approaches and practical paradoxes. In the first part, I have collected the remembrances of four people over the last thirteen years [1993 2005]. I trace the face and the shape of São Paulo City and situate the street people in this context. I have chose an epistemology of compassion as the axis to overcome invisibility and social exclusion. In the second part, I confront the Vicariate s discourses with its practical history in the context of the São Paulo metropolis. Thus I verify that there were changes both in the aid programs and in the Church s political action methods. I also verified a maturation process present in the streets that began with beingwith- the-other. This action began with OAF [The Organization of Fraternal Aid], the popular missions and the soup kitchens. The second influence was the House of Prayer and the spaces for reflection and articulation. This process led to the Contestation Days, to political demonstrations in the streets of downtown São Paulo and to municipal legislation for street people. Recently, temporary shelters and jobs have been offered and above all, there was the creation of a Cooperative for recyclable materials, organized and run by the Street People themselves. These inhabitants of our streets have passed from being thousands of solitary individuals to being active participants in the struggle for a public policy and an autonomous exercise of citizenship. The use of compassion as an analytic and hermeneutical category, according to the thought of Michel Henry, shows itself to be prolific as an explanation of the whole process. To do this it was necessary to enlarge our semantic map to include some operative concepts: subjectivity, autonomy, inclusion and exclusion, solidarity and liberation. Also it was necessary to include liberty, democracy, resistance, active nonviolence and witness. I accomplished this methodological research in flux, trying to guarantee the necessary sociological rigor. Those who inhabit the streets were gradually involved in the fundamental task of constructing their own social history. The record of this progression was preserved in the pages of the newspaper O Trecheiro that was a helpful source in this study. In the third part of this thesis I show that the public organs and services have actually changed their policies destined to serve this population. This has created serious contradictions and possibilities. I conclude that these institutional and social changes have altered the Church s vocabulary and methods of pastoral activity, anticipating utopias and active solidarity. The Vicariate is one part of number of social forces that make up the whole of civil society. There are differences in methodology, but there is a common effort among the groups that deal with the problem to seek solidarity and to articulate together. The attitudes of Archbishop Luciano Mendes de Almeida, Monsignor Julio Renato Lancellotti, Sister Dalva Ivete de Jesus, Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns and Sister Regina Maria Manoel, together with the exemplary lives of Nenuca, Alfredinho and dom Bagaço , have become signs of a new way of pastoral action for a significant part of the Church in São Paulo. This action is compassion s born and open to collective and utopian horizons. / A hipótese central desta tese é a de que a compaixão pode ser uma guia metodológica e interpretativa dos trabalhos sociais desenvolvidos pelo Vicariato Episcopal do Povo de Rua. A tese se divide em três partes: memórias, abordagem teórica e paradoxos. Na primeira parte, recolho as memórias de quatro personagens nos últimos treze anos (1993-2005). Traço o rosto e a moldura da cidade de São Paulo e situo a população de Rua nesse contexto. Assumo uma epistemologia da compaixão como princípio de superação da invisibilidade e da exclusão social. Na segunda parte, confronto os discursos com a prática histórica do Vicariato no contexto da metrópole paulistana. Constato que houve mudanças das práticas assistenciais e uma alteração significativa do método de ação política da Igreja. Verifico o processo de amadurecimento da presença nas Ruas, iniciado com o estar-com-o-outro. No princípio da ação estão a OAF, as missões populares e as sopas comunitárias. Em uma segunda fase a Casa de Oração e espaços de reflexão e articulação. Daí os Dias de Luta e a manifestação política pelas Ruas do centro da cidade, e a conquista da lei municipal do povo da Rua. Em etapa recente, a constituição de abrigos provisórios, dos projetos alternativos de renda e, sobretudo, a criação das cooperativas de papel e material reciclável, organizadas e geridas pelos próprios catadores. Da uma individualidade solitária, passa-se para a participação ativa das pessoas de Rua, na luta por políticas públicas e pelo exercício autônomo da cidadania. O uso da compaixão, como categoria analítica e hermenêutica, à luz do pensamento de Michel Henry, se mostrou fecundo para explicar o processo. Foi preciso construir um mapa semântico mais amplo, que incluiu alguns conceitos operativos: subjetividade, autonomia, inclusão e exclusão, solidariedade e libertação. E temas como liberdade, democracia, resistência, passividade ativa e, testemunho. Realizei a pesquisa metodológica in flux , procurando garantir o rigor sociológico essencial. Os moradores de Rua foram envolvidos gradualmente na tarefa fundamental de produção de sua própria história social. O registro desta trajetória foi guardado nas páginas do jornal O Trecheiro que serviu de fonte auxiliar. Na terceira parte, busco comprovar que os órgãos e serviços do poder público de fato alteraram as políticas públicas destinadas a atender esta população e que isto gerou contradições e possibilidades reais. Constato que as mudanças institucionais e sociais alteraram vocabulários e modos de ação pastoral, antecipando utopias e solidariedade ativa. O Vicariato faz parte de um conjunto de forças sociais, que compõem a sociedade civil. Há grandes diferenças na questão metodológica do trabalho, mas um empenho comum em trabalhar a solidariedade e a articulação dos grupos que lidam com a questão da Rua. Os gestos de dom Luciano Mendes de Almeida; do padre Julio Renato Lancellotti, da irmã Dalva Ivete de Jesus, de dom Paulo Evaristo Cardeal Arns e da irmã Regina Maria Manoel, além das vidas paradigmáticas de Nenuca, Alfredinho e dom Bagaço, tornam-se exemplos de ação de parcela da Igreja paulistana, inspirada na compaixão e aberta a horizontes utópicos coletivos

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:56:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernando Altemeyer Jr.pdf: 12259291 bytes, checksum: fb57df185112acef9388696acec59ae9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-11 / The main hypothesis of this thesis is that compassion can be a methodological and interpretive guide for the social work developed by the S. Paulo Archdiocesan Vicariate for Street People. The thesis is divided into three parts: memories, theoretical approaches and practical paradoxes. In the first part, I have collected the remembrances of four people over the last thirteen years [1993 2005]. I trace the face and the shape of São Paulo City and situate the street people in this context. I have chose an epistemology of compassion as the axis to overcome invisibility and social exclusion. In the second part, I confront the Vicariate s discourses with its practical history in the context of the São Paulo metropolis. Thus I verify that there were changes both in the aid programs and in the Church s political action methods. I also verified a maturation process present in the streets that began with beingwith- the-other. This action began with OAF [The Organization of Fraternal Aid], the popular missions and the soup kitchens. The second influence was the House of Prayer and the spaces for reflection and articulation. This process led to the Contestation Days, to political demonstrations in the streets of downtown São Paulo and to municipal legislation for street people. Recently, temporary shelters and jobs have been offered and above all, there was the creation of a Cooperative for recyclable materials, organized and run by the Street People themselves. These inhabitants of our streets have passed from being thousands of solitary individuals to being active participants in the struggle for a public policy and an autonomous exercise of citizenship. The use of compassion as an analytic and hermeneutical category, according to the thought of Michel Henry, shows itself to be prolific as an explanation of the whole process. To do this it was necessary to enlarge our semantic map to include some operative concepts: subjectivity, autonomy, inclusion and exclusion, solidarity and liberation. Also it was necessary to include liberty, democracy, resistance, active nonviolence and witness. I accomplished this methodological research in flux, trying to guarantee the necessary sociological rigor. Those who inhabit the streets were gradually involved in the fundamental task of constructing their own social history. The record of this progression was preserved in the pages of the newspaper O Trecheiro that was a helpful source in this study. In the third part of this thesis I show that the public organs and services have actually changed their policies destined to serve this population. This has created serious contradictions and possibilities. I conclude that these institutional and social changes have altered the Church s vocabulary and methods of pastoral activity, anticipating utopias and active solidarity. The Vicariate is one part of number of social forces that make up the whole of civil society. There are differences in methodology, but there is a common effort among the groups that deal with the problem to seek solidarity and to articulate together. The attitudes of Archbishop Luciano Mendes de Almeida, Monsignor Julio Renato Lancellotti, Sister Dalva Ivete de Jesus, Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns and Sister Regina Maria Manoel, together with the exemplary lives of Nenuca, Alfredinho and dom Bagaço , have become signs of a new way of pastoral action for a significant part of the Church in São Paulo. This action is compassion s born and open to collective and utopian horizons. / A hipótese central desta tese é a de que a compaixão pode ser uma guia metodológica e interpretativa dos trabalhos sociais desenvolvidos pelo Vicariato Episcopal do Povo de Rua. A tese se divide em três partes: memórias, abordagem teórica e paradoxos. Na primeira parte, recolho as memórias de quatro personagens nos últimos treze anos (1993-2005). Traço o rosto e a moldura da cidade de São Paulo e situo a população de Rua nesse contexto. Assumo uma epistemologia da compaixão como princípio de superação da invisibilidade e da exclusão social. Na segunda parte, confronto os discursos com a prática histórica do Vicariato no contexto da metrópole paulistana. Constato que houve mudanças das práticas assistenciais e uma alteração significativa do método de ação política da Igreja. Verifico o processo de amadurecimento da presença nas Ruas, iniciado com o estar-com-o-outro. No princípio da ação estão a OAF, as missões populares e as sopas comunitárias. Em uma segunda fase a Casa de Oração e espaços de reflexão e articulação. Daí os Dias de Luta e a manifestação política pelas Ruas do centro da cidade, e a conquista da lei municipal do povo da Rua. Em etapa recente, a constituição de abrigos provisórios, dos projetos alternativos de renda e, sobretudo, a criação das cooperativas de papel e material reciclável, organizadas e geridas pelos próprios catadores. Da uma individualidade solitária, passa-se para a participação ativa das pessoas de Rua, na luta por políticas públicas e pelo exercício autônomo da cidadania. O uso da compaixão, como categoria analítica e hermenêutica, à luz do pensamento de Michel Henry, se mostrou fecundo para explicar o processo. Foi preciso construir um mapa semântico mais amplo, que incluiu alguns conceitos operativos: subjetividade, autonomia, inclusão e exclusão, solidariedade e libertação. E temas como liberdade, democracia, resistência, passividade ativa e, testemunho. Realizei a pesquisa metodológica in flux , procurando garantir o rigor sociológico essencial. Os moradores de Rua foram envolvidos gradualmente na tarefa fundamental de produção de sua própria história social. O registro desta trajetória foi guardado nas páginas do jornal O Trecheiro que serviu de fonte auxiliar. Na terceira parte, busco comprovar que os órgãos e serviços do poder público de fato alteraram as políticas públicas destinadas a atender esta população e que isto gerou contradições e possibilidades reais. Constato que as mudanças institucionais e sociais alteraram vocabulários e modos de ação pastoral, antecipando utopias e solidariedade ativa. O Vicariato faz parte de um conjunto de forças sociais, que compõem a sociedade civil. Há grandes diferenças na questão metodológica do trabalho, mas um empenho comum em trabalhar a solidariedade e a articulação dos grupos que lidam com a questão da Rua. Os gestos de dom Luciano Mendes de Almeida; do padre Julio Renato Lancellotti, da irmã Dalva Ivete de Jesus, de dom Paulo Evaristo Cardeal Arns e da irmã Regina Maria Manoel, além das vidas paradigmáticas de Nenuca, Alfredinho e dom Bagaço, tornam-se exemplos de ação de parcela da Igreja paulistana, inspirada na compaixão e aberta a horizontes utópicos coletivos

This diploma thesis is dealing with life and professional destiny of Jaroslav Kadlec. It arose from the research of reference books and historical sources archived in the State District Archives in České Budějovice and State Regional Archives in Třeboň. Memories of his close friend Msgre. Václav Kulhánek are integral to the thesis. This thesis begins with the look at the historical period, the development and status of the Catholic Church in the context of Czechoslovakia. It briefly acquaints us with the life of Jaroslav Kadlec, his choice to become a priest, his religious and teaching career. Then this thesis clarifies his life difficulties connected to communist persecution. The next part of this thesis is focused on his personal life and his studies, both of which are closely related to the city of České Budějovice. He spent a considerable part of his life there, whether as a student of the Gymnasium of J. V. Jirsík or later taking part in the Episcopal theological seminar, there also as a pedagogue. He was returning to České Budějovice not only in his memories but through his scientific work as well.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Religion)--Vanderbilt University, May 2009. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-96). / Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Philo Hutcheson, committee chair; Joel Meyers, Deron Boyles, Linda Buchanan, committee members. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 10, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-288).

Pour la mission au Dahomey, il a été demandé à Mgr de Marion-Brésillac de fonder la Société des Missions Africaines. Aussi n’a-t-il pas été aisé pour les missionnaires de la SMA arrivés au Dahomey de préparer la relève en fondant le clergé local, même si cela était contraire à la doctrine de leur fondateur sur le clergé indigène. C’est finalement par l’insistance du Saint-Siège et par la détermination de Mgr Steinmetz, deuxième Vicaire apostolique du Dahomey que le clergé local a été institué. Mais contrairement à leurs aînés, les jeunes générations réclament l’amélioration de la qualité de leur formation. Les Supérieurs finissent par réagir favorablement aux requêtes des séminaristes. La Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice sollicitée pour la cause, passe la direction du Séminaire au clergé diocésain conformément aux termes du contrat avec les évêques tout en continuant à collaborer à la formation des séminaristes. La hiérarchie ecclésiastique étant totalement revenue au clergé local, elle est responsable de l’orientation de la formation des futurs prêtres en accord avec la Congrégation pour l’Évangélisation des Peuples. Les professeurs de Séminaires désormais pourvus des grades académiques canoniques, travaillent à l’harmonie et à la qualité de la formation des séminaristes béninois conformément à la Ratio fundamentalis de l’Église, dans un esprit d’inculturation. L’évangélisation s’étend et imprègne progressivement la culture béninoise de valeurs évangéliques. Des prêtres béninois ont marqué l’histoire nationale. Et le dynamisme tant des fidèles que du clergé du Bénin se remarque aussi au niveau de l’Église universelle. / For the mission in Dahomey, it was asked of Bishop Marion-Brésillac to found the Society of African Missions. So had it not been easy for the missionaries who arrived in the SMA Dahomey to prepare future generations by forming the local clergy, even if this was contrary to the doctrine of their founder on the native clergy. It was finally by the insistence of the Holy See and by the determination of Mgr Steinmetz, second Apostolic Vicar of Dahomey that the local clergy was established. But unlike the elders the younger generations call for better quality of their training. Superiors eventually responded positively to the requests of seminarians. Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice solicited for this cause, handed over going the direction of the seminary to the diocesan clergy in conformity with the terms of the contract with the bishops while continuing to contribute to the formation of seminarians.The hierarchy is fully returned to the local clergy, she is responsible for guiding the formation of future priests in agreement with the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Seminary for lecturers now furnished with the canonical academic degrees, work to the harmony and quality of training of Benin seminarians according to the Fundamentalis ratio of the Church in an inculturation spirit. Evangelism gradually extends and permeates the culture of Benin Gospel values. Benin priests marked the nation's history. And the dynamism of both the faithful and clergy of Benin is also evident at the Universal Church.