As to whether seminary training is "Roman Catholic," see my post above. Ministerial training began with catechetical training in the patristic period. Those catechetical schools became cathedral schools in the early medieval period. In the high medieval period those cathedral schools became theology faculties in universities. Ministerial training was done there until the Reformation, where there was a brief hiatus because of the relative absence of Protestant theology faculties!. The Protestants set up academies and as some university faculties were reformed training returned to the university until the Enlightenment when gradually theology was thrown out of the university. Contemporary seminaries are essentially university theology faculties in exile.

Roman Catholic? Only if anything that happened before the Reformation is "Roman Catholic."

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