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For more than 50 years, Canterbury Christ Church University has been a big part of the Kent community, providing education, which makes a real and positive difference to people's lives. Our network of campuses and centers stretches across Kent and Medway, and are a vital part of the local communities. We want all students and staff to achieve their full potential, and that is why we have invested millions of pounds into creating high-quality facilities to make this possible. Renowned for its vibrant and friendly atmosphere, Canterbury combines an exciting contemporary buzz with years of tradition and history. This international destination has been a center of learning since St Augustine established his first Cathedral and Abbey around AD600. Now Canterbury, a World Heritage site, is home to three universities, a renowned Cathedral, as well as a host of shops, bars, and restaurants. Canterbury is a diverse and beautiful city – a World Heritage site, a center for the arts, and an excellent destination for shopping and socializing. Canterbury's location means that London and Europe are within easy reach, and a visit to the coast is just a short drive away. Every year it plays host to several festivals, and the bars, clubs, and restaurants are popular all year round. Places you can visit in Canterbury include: Canterbury Christ Church is organized into academic faculties, that contain schools and centers for teaching and research, and professional service departments that provide our central services. Our Strategic Framework sets out our aims and objectives for the next five years and will enable us to build on our strengths and deliver measurable outcomes and impact in the context of our mission and values. We want to do more than provide our students with a high-quality education. We want to work in partnership with our students to ensure they graduate with an understanding of the challenges facing society and our world and have the skills, commitment, and personal qualities needed to help address them. Our aspirations for the next five years are formed around four broad aims. We want to enhance the student experience, further develop our high-quality teaching, extend our research and knowledge exchange activity, and ensure that all our resources are used to support our goals effectively. We will continue to work with students as partners to provide a first-class university experience that includes stimulating teaching and opportunities for the workplace and voluntary experience and study abroad. We will further develop our high-quality support services and facilities to ensure they are provided on how and when our students need them. We will build on our existing mechanisms for receiving and acting upon student feedback to continue to deliver an excellent student experience. We believe in a curriculum that is informed by our research, contributes to society's needs, and enhances the student experience. Our courses' strength and breadth are notable, and we want to build on that success across the board while ensuring that our commitment to social and environmental sustainability is embedded throughout our teaching and research. Research conducted by our academics makes a real difference, especially in the fields of health care, education, social and applied sciences, business, humanities, and the arts. We must nurture and support this. During the coming five years, we will continue to develop our research and knowledge exchange partnerships to deliver high-quality outputs that influence government policy, develop professional practice, benefit society, and inform our teaching. We understand that how people want to work and learn is changing, and we also need to keep up with innovations in teaching and research and knowledge exchange. To do this, we need to use our resources effectively, ensuring our buildings and technology support the achievement of our strategic aims and our University community. Our people have a crucial role to play in the achievement of our strategic aims. We want to ensure that our University is an inspiring place to work. People can develop and realize their potential within a friendly and professional learning community, working in partnership with our students. The senior management team developed the Strategic Framework in consultation with staff from across the University, the Governing Body, students, and external stakeholders. We will regularly measure the University's performance against Key Performance Indicators.

Christ, the King College, was founded by Rev. Fr. Edward Wasil, SJ, in 1947 with Christ the King Academy. His main objective was to evangelize people through formal education. The institution since then became monumental of Roman Catholic education, being a pioneering catholic school in Gingoog. We, the Ignatian Marian Community, living the Spirituality of humble servanthood, provide quality Christian education towards transforming persons into humble and responsible leaders of the church and society. We commit ourselves to: Live the values of faith, excellence, and service Promote the culture of unity, respect, and responsibility Develop more appropriate researches, programs, strategies, and practices to form globally competent professionals and Strengthen involvement in providing services to the poor and advocacy on relevant social issues. The overall goal of Christ, the King College, is to contribute to the students' development into dynamic and responsive Filipino Christian citizens, committed to serving their families, communities, the nation, and the world as a whole. It seeks to accomplish this goal by: Striving to create a school community characterized by love, truth, justice, freedom, peace, and professionalism that will promote sound relationship among the administration, staff, and students Providing a learning atmosphere that will help students to learn and make appropriate applications in their daily lives Maximizing the Research and Planning service for scientific research and development of the school Evaluating and enriching the departmental curricula in terms of the school's output in students' productivity and service efficiency and effectiveness Refining the Christian Living programs to effectively integrate the academic teaching of the Catholic Doctrines with other subject areas, the traditional religious prac, tices, and community exposure activities Tapping community resources and funding agencies that can support priority school programs Facilitating all efforts towards the school's accreditation and Endeavoring to increase the students' level of awareness on various government thrusts for intelligent involvement in the democratic process, especially promoting human rights and dignity, social justice and equality, social responsibility, and economic welfare.

The Seminary of Christ the King is a Roman Catholic seminary conducted by Westminster Abbey's monks with local diocesan clergy and some very dedicated lay volunteers. In drawing up its coat of arms, the Seminary selected from the wealth of available symbols to show its particular origin, identity, and mission. The beautiful 80-hectare campus provides residential accommodations along with recreational and community facilities of many kinds. On-Campus, there are two communities of seminarians – The Major Seminary, made up of seminarians from neighboring dioceses. The High School Seminary (Grades 8-12) comprises seminarians across Canada and the United States. The Seminary resides on the same grounds as the Abbey, within the Archdiocese of Vancouver, B.C. Since 1931, when the Seminary was opened in the Archdiocese, the Seminary has striven to form priests and religious in the image of Christ, the High Priest, and with the mind and heart of the Church. We emphasize liturgical and community formation without neglecting the other pillars of priestly formation and identity, viz. human, intellectual, and spiritual foundations. The College seminary program'sprogram'sprogram's goal is to form spiritual men who are well prepared for the ministerial priesthood and adjust to the changing needs of the Church while holding fast to the essentials. The Seminary of Christ, the King in its Arts and Theology departments, gives special attention to the character and spiritual formation of each seminarian, which is centered on the LiturgyLiturgyLiturgyLiturgy and builds upon the foundations of faith and reverence learned in the Christian family. The Seminary is convinced of the advantage of maturing within a community of like-minded seminarians and pursuing priesthood studies in a setting where the Church is loved and the Church Seasons and feasts help make real the mysteries of the faith and create a supportive environment for academic life. The Seminary provides experiences of apostolic and pastoral life that aim at actively engaging each seminarian in the diocesan life of the Church. The purpose of the High School seminary is to provide an atmosphere within which young men can grow in holiness, i.e., grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ and the Seminary community. Only through such growth are we able to discern God'sGod'sGod's will for us, our vocation. The Seminary's fundamental purpose is not merely to provide a good education or to be a safe environment, but to grow in our ability to follow Christ the Redeemer with generous souls and pure hearts. The Seminary follows the British Columbia Ministry of Education'sEducation'sEducation's program for Secondary Education. However, it provides the seminarians with a wholesome spiritual, communal, intellectual, and physical environment where a young man can avail himself of the means to mature in love for the Church and the Christian virtues and responsibilities. Our secondary aim is to prepare a young man to continue his formation toward the priesthood or religious life in the Major Seminary, should he be called. The Seminary of Christ the King was founded in 1931 by Archbishop William M. Duke of Vancouver. In 1939, with the Holy See'sSee's approval, the Archbishop entrusted the Seminary to Benedictine monks as a training center for diocesan and religious priesthood students. In 1951 the Seminary opened the Faculty of Theology. The Monastery was raised to abbatial status in 1953 under the title Westminster Abbey. In 1966, through its University Charter, the Seminary was empowered to grant the Bachelor of Arts degree and degrees in Theology. Welcome to the website of the Seminary of Christ the King. The Benedictines of Westminster Abbey have had the responsibility of guiding the discernment and formation of men for the Catholic priesthood at the Seminary of Christ the King since September 1939. Our monastic charisms of community life and daily celebration of the Eucharist and the LiturgyLiturgyLiturgyLiturgy of the Hours typical introduce our seminarians into community life and the LiturgyLiturgyLiturgyLiturgy and form them as men of communion united in the Church'sChurch'sChurch's worship of the Father. With our strong emphasis on community life and a daily rhythm shaped by the liturgical cycle, seminarians experience, often for the first time in their lives, the richness of the Catholic Faith in all its intensity and beauty. The splendor of our natural surroundings, as we are located on a hilltop above the Fraser Valley, in no small way enhances the sense of wonder that we hope to instill in our seminarians here at SCK. Committed to the four pillars of priestly formation, human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral, the formators and professors at the Seminary of Christ the King accompany the seminarians throughout their years of formation and assist them to integrate these facets of the whole man into their lives so that our ordained alumni are capable and zealous priests after the heart of Jesus. Our Seminary offers both a four-year program in Philosophy, a B.A. degree, and a four-year Theology program with B.Th. And M.Div. Degrees for those who meet the graduation requirements. Intellectual formation at SCK draws upon the fonts of Scripture, the Magisterium, Conciliar teaching, and St. Thomas Aquinas. We hope that our seminarians will be men who think with the Church and appreciate and appropriate into their hearts and minds that which is right, fair, and beautiful in classical and contemporary thinking, literature, and art. Human formation at SCK occurs informal settings such as lectures, conferences, and personal direction and informal ways such as part of life in the community. Students take responsibility for many household chores and share in the work of preparing and celebrating the LiturgyLiturgyLiturgyLiturgy. We welcome inquiries from Catholic men interested in discerning a possible call to the priesthood or consecrated life. We have three or four weekends each year for men to stay with us and find out something about seminary life and the joys and challenges of following Jesus'Jesus'Jesus' call to come and follow Him and be fishers of men.