Mission Statement:

The mission of St. Basil College Seminary is to educate and prepare men who desire to pursue a vocation to the priesthood for the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Accredited by the State of Connecticut, St. Basil College offers a four year liberal arts education leading to a degree in philosophy as preparation for its graduates to pursue the study of theology at a major seminary.

St. Basils College strives to maintain a balance of spiritual, intellectual, pastoral, and human formation as defined in the USCCB document The Program of Priestly Formation and all other papal and synodal documents directing the formation of future priests.

Description of the  Goals and Objectives of the College:

St. Basil College is a center of learning and formation. As a College, it aims to help the student mature as a liberally educated person, committed to Christ and to the service of people. Hopefully, the student will accomplish this through the choice of the priesthood as a vocation of service.

The academic program of the college embodies the goals of a four-year liberal arts college. It gives the student an awareness of traditional and contemporary thought in the liberal arts based on a philosophical and pre-theological core curriculum. It focuses on man's place in history and world cultures.

The program also emphasizes the art of communication and the moral principles that should govern personal and public affairs. Its most important ingredients are critical thinking and philosophical analysis. It inspires the student with a love for seeking, honoring, and defending the truth vigorously, along with an honest recognition of the limitations of human understanding. It fosters the habit of continuous, life-long learning and exploration in the pursuit of wisdom and prudence.

The College has further objectives. Its community life reflects the influence of its goal, that of the priesthood, by accentuating spiritual, social, historical, and cultural development

It encourages the student's desire to give true witness to the saving love of God in the world. It seeks to develop those values that "are highly regarded among men and speak well of a minister of Christ," so that he may communicate effectively with others within the seminary and with those in outside communities. As a result, the student is enabled to grow in academic awareness, religious commitment, social responsibility, and cultural development.

Recent events in Eastern Europe have caused the college to broaden its objectives. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the independence of Ukraine, and the emergence of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, there has been an increase in vocations to the priesthood, exceeding the capacity of the seminaries in Western Ukraine. Consequently, the Board of Trustees has opened the doors of the College to young men from Eastern Europe. An English as a Second Language Program has been initiated with a curriculum geared to the special needs of these foreign student-seminarians.