Epiphany Apostolic College
| Epiphany Apostolic College | |
|---|---|
 Epiphany Apostolic College's second and final location, in New York. | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Catholic Church |
| Rite | Latin Church |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | defunct |
| Patron | Epiphany |
| Location | |
| Location | New Windsor, New York (formerly Baltimore) |
| Country | United States |
| Architecture | |
| Date established | 1889 (Baltimore) |
Epiphany Apostolic College, formerly known as the Josephite Collegiate Seminary, was a Catholic minor seminary founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1889.
History
[edit]The seminary was founded in 1889 by Fr John R. Slattery of the Mill Hill Missionaries, a English Catholic society of apostolic life. The seminary soon came under the service of the Josephites, an American offshoot of the Mill Hills serving African Americans, also founded by Slattery.[1][2] Charles Uncles, the first African-American Catholic priest trained and ordained in the United States and a cofounder of the Josephites, studied at Epiphany.[1]
After Uncles, the young priest Dominic James Manley, also a Josephite cofounder, served as president from 1889 to October 1893. Born in Ireland and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Manley died in office at the age of 39. He had been a diocesan priest before joining the Josephites.[3]
Fr Lambert A. Welbers, another Josephite cofounder, served as president from 1901 to March 1903. He later became pastor of St. Peter Claver Mission in Tyler, Texas.[4] At Epiphany, he was succeeded by Fr Robert J. Carse, who went on to become pastor of St. Patrick Parish in St. Charles, Illinois, for 41 years and died in 1950.[5] Another early president was Fr Thomas B. Donovan and Fr Thomas J. Duffy around 1909.[6]
The seminary later moved to New Windsor, New York in 1925. For several decades in the early to late 20th century, racial politics led to the seminary being closed to most African Americans.[1]
Epiphany was merged into the former Our Lady of Hope Seminary in 1970.[7][8] It later became Epiphany Apostolic High School, which closed n 1975. It is now the site of a public middle school.
Notable alumni
[edit]- Antoine Garibaldi
- Archbishop Eugene A. Marino
- Bishop John H. Ricard
- Bishop Carl A. Fisher
- Bishop Joseph L. Howze
- Marlon Green
- Edward Francis Murphy
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ochs, Stephen J. (1993). Desegregating the altar : the Josephites and the struggle for black priests, 1871–1960. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1859-1. OCLC 28646434.
- ^ Foley, Albert Sidney (1955). God's men of color; the colored Catholic priests of the United States, 1854-1954. Internet Archive. New York, Farrar, Straus. p. 44.
- ^ "Pilot, Volume 56, Number 45 — 11 November 1893 — Boston College Newspapers". newspapers.bc.edu. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Lampe, Philip (29 April 2021). "In the Spirit of St. Peter Claver: Social Justice and Black Catholicism in San Antonio". Verbum Incarnatum: An Academic Journal of Social Justice. 8 (1). ISSN 1934-9084.
- ^ "History". St. Patrick Parish. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ Brill, Michael (21 August 2023). Some Scattered Notes on the Religious Institutions of Baltimore, Maryland and Surrounding Counties. p. 353.
- ^ "Epiphany Apostolic College, formerly Josephite Collegiate Seminary, Newburgh, New York, Undated". cdm16280.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- ^ "Transcripts from Closed Colleges". New York State Education Department. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- Educational institutions established in 1889
- Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart
- Baltimore County, Maryland
- New Windsor, New York
- African-American Roman Catholicism
- Catholic seminaries in the United States
- Christian organizations established in 1889
- Catholic educational institutions
- Epiphany Apostolic College
- 1889 establishments in Maryland
- Educational institutions disestablished in 1970
- 1970 disestablishments in New York (state)