Theology seminaries today offer a great variety of courses of study and formats for students who are not intending to get into full-time Christian ministry. Seminary college instruction has become democratized. There are online courses of study, weekend classes, and cohort-based grades. There are recent plans planned for scholars who will not get into established professions like the pastorate upon commencement ceremony. And there are other campuses and other nontraditional backgrounds that allow students to go to seminary without having to relocate or to vary their life styles.The organization of contemporary theological college institutions was a direct result of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent which asserted on the betterment of the instruction of clergy by the creation of Theology seminaries as live-in institutions under the special control of elder clergy. Since at least the fourth century there have been Seminaries for the schooling of clergy. The original known group of Seminarists was gathered by St. Basil of Ancyra. The term degenerated out of general use in the Middle Period, when almost all spiritual training was in monasteries, and later, in the universities. After Reformation and the emergence of new denominations, Seminaries again came into usage, specially in the U.S. The 16th-century Council of Trent ordered Seminaries to be opened in every diocese.