It offers academic courses leading to a diploma in theology, as well as programs for laypeople and religious involved in Church ministries.
[1] It is located at the Christ the King Seminary which in 1997 was the only theological faculty in the country where seminarians and religious received their doctrinal and pastoral formation for the priesthood.
The Academic Staff emphasize special care to the deepening of theological education and formation in keeping with the changing realities which priests, religious and laity face.
For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church in Pakistan, a centre of theological learning opened for a wider participation of the laity, religious and clergy.
[5] In 2012 Fr Robert McCulloch, a former dean of the Institute, was awarded the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam by President Asif Ali Zardari for his work in Pakistan.