After the partition of Polish, Austrian authorities in 1783 in Lviv formed the so-called General Seminar for all the dioceses of Galicia.
The place of the seminar were the buildings of former monastery Carmelite Calced in Lviv (later Ossolineum.
Until World War II alumni seminar benefited from the intellectual formation of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Jan Kazimierz Lviv.
After the end of World War II and the deportation of Poles from Lviv, in 1945 the seminary was moved to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, but already in 1950, the communist authorities liquidated them.
Since the historic buildings Seminary in Lviv have not been returned by the Ukrainian authorities, the seminary was founded in ruined purchased the sanatorium complex in Bryukhovychi near Lviv.