The decision to establish a theological seminary in Poznań was made by the diocesan synod on October 26, 1564. By following the recommendations of the Council of Trent, the synod actually followed the instructions of the Warsaw synod, which took place in 1561 and which expressed the will to entrust the education of the Polish clergy to already operating schools. Therefore, the Poznań Synod decided to open a theological seminary at the Lubrań Academy itself. This project failed, the Poznań bishops A. Konarski and Ł. Głosecki asked the Jesuits to take over the running of this seminary. After negotiations conducted on their part by the rector of the college, J. Wujek, and the inspector of the order's branch, L. Mag-gio, in 1580, a theological seminary was opened near their college. Seminarians of the diocese of Kujawy, whose future bishop J. Rozrazewski came there for education. Around 1590, the institution had eighteen students. Its maintenance fell mainly to the rich abbeys of the Poznań diocese: the Benedictine monks of Lubin, the Cistercians from Przemęt, Paradyż, Bledzewo and Obra. According to the wishes of Bishop Konarski, Braniewo served as a model in the Poznań theological seminary, although with a simplified organization. So, after rhetoric, seminarians did one year of philosophy and two years of theology. The most talented were then sent to the Vilnius Academy to complete their studies in these two fields. Among the most outstanding masters was a Jesuit. J. Uberus. After graduating from the Roman College, he became prefect of the theological seminary in Braniewo and taught moral theology there. The author of polemical writings, an expert in canon law, commissioned for various missions, the Poznań seminary enjoyed material security and had no shortage of candidates. He encountered only one major difficulty - a dispute between the Jesuits and the chapter, which wanted to move it near the cathedral. The dispute was settled thirty years later, on May 26, 1614, by the final withdrawal of the Jesuits.