Guidelines for Receiving Pastoral Ministers in the United States

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Reception and Orientation Section

USCCB resources regarding pastoral dimensions of welcoming newcomers:

Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church

Building Intercultural Competence for Ministers: Modules for Training Workshop

Best Practices for Shared Parishes: So That They May All Be One

Many Faces in God’s House

Harmony in Faith

Migration and Refugee Services

Strangers No Longer

Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations

National Formal Orientation Programs for International Pastoral Ministers:

World Priest Program, St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology’s Institute for Priests and Presbyterates,

International Priest Internship, Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio,

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Cultural Orientation Program for International Ministers (COPIM), Loyola Marymount University, Los

Angeles,

Acculturation Seminar for International Priests, Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John’s

University, New York,

Intercultural Consultation Services, Detroit, Michigan,

Sacred Heart Institute, Huntington, New York,

Language, Culture and Church for International Priests & Religious (LCCIPR) Program, Conception

College Seminary, Conception, Missouri,

Office of National Collections

For more background information on sending dioceses, eparchies, societies, or institutes of other countries

related to the exchange of pastoral ministers, please contact the Office of National Collections by email at

or call 202-541-3400.