[1] The Delegate of the Pope, Wladyslav Cardinal Rubin, the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, encouraged the project.
The establishment of a Major seminary to train the Syro-Malankara Catholic clergy had been envisaged by the Holy See of Rome at the time of the Reunion of Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
[5] On 11 April 2005 the Faculty of Theology of St. Mary’s Malankara Major Seminary became affiliated with Rome's Pontifical Urbaniana University.
The silver jubilee of the Malankara Major Seminary that commenced on Thursday, 29 June 2007 was officially inaugurated on Tuesday, 2 October 2007 by Moran mor Baselios Cleemis and its concluding celebrations were held from 5–8 November 2007.
The seminarians who are the ASA's members involve themselves in the service of the poor, sick and needy so as to obtain experience and training for their future ministry.