The Papal Seminary in Pune, India, is a Catholic educational institute whose primary function is training priests.

After travelling within India and Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka), he chose to locate the seminary in Ampitiya, a settlement close to Kandy.

Zaleski insisted that the seminary be entrusted to the Jesuit Missionaries of the Belgian province (at work in the Bengal Mission).

[3] The students were selected from the dioceses of India and Sri Lanka, and were to be trained as leaders of the Churches in their own countries.

[citation needed] The academic work of the seminary is delivered by the sister-institution Jnana Deepa, Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, which is on the same campus.