Already, when collecting financial resources, Slovenian emigrants considered Bishop Gregorij Rožman’s Scholarship Fund. The Mission Office of Austrian Carinthia helped various students. Let us hope that the Slovenian Missionary Centre will also be able to do this, as students have been coming from missionary lands in recent years.

At the sale of the property in Veletrio, which was donated to the Slovenian Papal Institution in Rome, a decision was made to allocate part of the purchase price to the Slovenik scholarship fund (SBC, prot. 089-091/March 13 March 25, 2013). The Congregation for the Clergy approved the submitted regulations of the fund on May 27, 2013 (prot. no. 2013/557). The resources of this fund are “primarily intended for scholarships or assistance to those priests who are sent by Slovenian bishops or other Slovenian ordinaries to study theology or other sciences in Rome and who, during their studies, are residents of Slovenik” (Art. 1). Article 4.2 stipulates that the fund may grant financial aid “also to priests who were sent to study by ordinaries from elsewhere and who are residents of Slovenik, but such scholarships and aid may only be awarded if the available sum exceeds the amount, necessary for a favourable solution to all justified requests from Article 1 of these Regulations.”

“The fund acquires funds through earmarked gifts, possible legacies and income from its assets, such as interest, dividends and rents” (Art. 2).

While ensuring a constant flow of resources into the fund, it is necessary to consider that students who come to Slovenik are mostly from missionary lands and no longer from Slovenia.