the father otto teaches here at the late alero catholic institute of philosophy and theology. a member of the indonesian province of the divine word missionaries father also studied in germany. he returned home ten years ago and is now rector of the university where he himself once trained for the priesthood much has changed since then. that. this is the largest seminary in the world. sixty students to be. more than half of them almost six hundred candidates for the priesthood. to be. founded in one nine hundred thirty seven to train divine word missionaries the seminary is now one of the region's most prestigious universities. several dioceses and fourteen religious orders send their seminarians to late alero of course not all of the young men reach ordination. journalists as teachers of religion. as the university professors or even as politicians. but surely a year ago we even had a deputy mayor who completed his studies here and. there are forty lecturers on the staff most of them divine were missionaries. the philosophical and theological training takes six years. the isl