The College of San Fernando de México was a Roman Catholic Franciscan missionary college, or seminary (Colegio Apostólico),[1] founded in Spanish colonial Mexico City by the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor on October 15, 1734.
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The institution was established to provide specific training for priests who were to work among the indigenous populations within the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain, located in present-day Mexico and the southwestern United States.
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