title: Maryvale Institute
text: # Maryvale Institute
  
  Maryvale Institute is a college of further and higher education, an International Catholic Distance-Learning College for Catechesis, Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education in Old Oscott, Great Barr, Birmingham, England. It specialises in the provision of part-time, distance learning courses to the lay faithful, consecrated religious and ministers of the Roman Catholic Church.
  
  ## History
  
  The College has existed in its current state since 1980, when it was established by Archbishop George Patrick Dwyer, on the site of St Mary's College, founded in 1794 for both the training of priests and the education of lay pupils. It was also, at one stage, the home of Saint John Henry Newman.
  
  In August 2019 the Institute was merged with the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
  
  ## Courses offered
  
  ### Centre for Catechesis and Adult Formation
  
  * Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies (CCRS)
  * Certificate in Catechesis and Ministry (CCM)
  * Certificate in Catholic Art (CCA)
  * Certificate in Chaplaincy Studies (CCS)
  * Certificate in New Testament Studies (CNTS)
  * Certificate in the Teaching of Pope Francis (CTPF)
  * Foundation in Parish Ministry (FPM)
  
  ### Higher Education - Undergraduate
  
  * Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition (Validated by The Open University)
  * Ecclesiastical Bachelor of Divinity (Validated by Faculté-Notre Dame, Paris)
  
  ### Higher Education - Postgraduate
  
  * MA in Catholic Applied Theology (Validated by The Open University)
  * Licence in Divinity: Pathway in Catechetical Sciences (Validated by Faculté-Notre Dame, Paris)
  
  ### Research Degrees
  
  * MPhil in Catholic Studies
  * PhD in Catholic Studies
  
  Validated by Liverpool Hope University.
  
  ## Institute relationships
  
  The Institute is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, its president being the Most Reverend Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham. Its Doctoral (PhD) programme is accredited by Liverpool Hope University. Its Bachelor of Arts and Master's programmes are accredited by the Open University. The validator of the Bachelor of Divinity and Licence in Catechetics programmes is the Faculté-Notre Dame, at the École Cathédrale de Paris. Maynooth Pontifical University, which it was affiliated to accredited a number of programmes in Maryvale, up until 2014. As well as Maynooth and the Open University, the institute was also an associated college of Hull University. In 2011 Maryvale under new guidelines from the Vatican became the first Higher Institute of Religious Sciences in English-speaking world, and became associated with Notre Dame ecclesiastic faculty.
  
  ## Adult Faith Programmes
  
  In 2012 Maryvale allowed dioceses in Ireland to run its programmes as part of their adult faith development courses, with courses being run in Sligo and Roscommon, in the Diocese of Elphin, and in the Diocese of Cloyne. In the Diocese of Kilmore courses were run validated by Maryvale and the Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin. The course was also launched in Motherwell, Scotland.
  
  