The Patriarchal Seminary of Rachol is the Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, situated in the village of Rachol, Salcete, in the State of Goa, India. The Seminary came to be known as the Patriarchal Seminary of Rachol in the year 1886 after the Archbishop of Goa was given the honorary title of the Patriarch of the East Indies. The village of Rachol was a pre-Portuguese fortress built either by the Muslim Kingdom of Bijapur or the Hindu Kingdom of Vijaynagar. The Portuguese took possession of Salcete in 1543 and fortified the ruins of the fortress and turned it into a military base.