institution
Theological Seminary (generic)
seminary
also: семинария, духовное училище
The generic Orthodox theological seminary (dukhovnaya seminariya) and its preparatory diocesan school (dukhovnoe uchilishche), the standard training and credentialing path for Russian parish clergy; ordination straight from the seminary bench, without an intervening period as deacon or teacher, left a young priest liturgically inexperienced and without independent means.
Reading notes
- A Nightmare §35 попав в священники прямо с семинарской скамьи
Ordination straight from the seminary bench -- without an intervening period as deacon or teacher -- left a young priest like Father Yakov both liturgically inexperienced (visible in his fumbling, uncertain manner of officiating) and financially unprepared, since seminary training conferred clerical status but no independent means; his later confession makes clear he is still paying, out of his own parish income, for his younger brother's ongoing seminary education.