Largest Theological Libraries in the World

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Name Catalogued Size (# Items) Institution Location Country Library Affiliation (if any) Library Affiliation Size (# Items) Notes
Vatican Apostolic Library _01600000002.38 million+[1]}} Vatican Apostolic Library Holy See   Vatican City
Philosophy and Theology Faculties Library University of Oxford Oxford, England   United Kingdom Bodleian Libraries
Princeton Theological Seminary Library _0160000000986,000+[2]}} Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, New Jersey   United States Seminary students have borrowing access to the Princeton University Libraries
David Allan Hubbard Library _0160000000817,000+[3]}} Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, California   United States
Burke Theological Library _0160000000706,000+[4]}} Union Theological Seminary New York, New York   United States Columbia University Libraries _016000000010.4 million+[5]}}
Pitts Theology Library _0160000000610,000+[6]}} Emory University Atlanta, Georgia   United States Emory University Libraries _01600000004 million+[7]}}
James P. Boyce Centennial Library _0160000000563,000+[8]}} Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky   United States SBTS students have reciprocal borrowing access with the library of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Andover-Harvard Theological Library 539,000[9]}} Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts   United States Harvard Library 18 million+ As a member of the Boston Theological Institute, Harvard Divinity School students have reciprocal borrowing access to BTI member school libraries.
Flora Lamson Hewlett Library _0160000000525,000+[10]}} Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, California   United States GTU Doctoral and MA students, as well as constituent seminary students, have borrowing access to the University of California - Berkeley and Stanford University Green Library
The United Library _0160000000524,000+[11]}} Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Evanston, Illinois   United States G-ETS students have borrowing privileges with Northwestern University's libraries.
B. L. Fisher Library _0160000000508,000+[12]}} Asbury Theological Seminary Wilmore, Kentucky   United States
Divinity School Library _0160000000444,000+[13]}} Duke University Durham, North Carolina   United States Duke University Library 8 million+
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