India

St. Augustine Minor Seminary is the first house of the Order of St. Augustine in India after the restoration of the order in India. From its opening in 1986 until today this house has been the formation house for all Augustinians in India.
The Augustinians in 1986 were given the pastoral care of a small church dedicated to Saint Antony of Padua in Edacochin, in order to give spiritual assistance to the faithful of the locality. This shrine became the Order’s first formal ministerial responsibility in in modern times. It is a popular shrine, and not a parish church.

The Order built a new church at the shrine in 1996. In 1986 Saint Augustine’s Study House was opened at Alwaye (Aluva) in Kerala, India as a pre-novitiate, novitiate and professorium. The minor seminarians from Edacochin moved there formally to join the Augustinian Order and to prepare for priesthood. In 2007 there were a total of forty-seven young men in initial formation. Seventeen of these men were solemnly professed.
Late in 2006 the new Delegation of India of the Order of Saint Augustine purchased a school with 900 male and female students. Since 2008 the Augustinians have been involved in the school, variously in teaching roles and in administration.

By June 2008 two new staff rooms and fourteen new classrooms were ready for use, and another eight classrooms added a year later. The school enrolment had increased to almost 1,180 by June 2009. An Augustinian priory has been established at the school. It became the fourth Augustinian Priory currently in India.