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Epiphany Apostolic College
Epiphany Apostolic College's second and final location, in New York.
Religion
AffiliationCatholic Church
RiteLatin Church
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusdefunct
PatronEpiphany
Location
LocationNew Windsor, New York (formerly Baltimore)
CountryUnited States
Architecture
Date established1889 (Baltimore)

Epiphany Apostolic College, formerly known as the Josephite Collegiate Seminary, was a Catholic minor seminary founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1889 by John R. Slattery for the Mill Hill Missionaries, a UK-based society of apostolic life. The seminary soon came under the service of the Josephites, an American offshoot of the Mill Hill Missionaries serving African Americans.[1][2] Charles Uncles, the first African-American Catholic priest trained and ordained in the United States, studied there.[1]

The seminary later moved to New Windsor, New York in 1925, and was merged into the former Our Lady of Hope Seminary in 1970.[3][4] The college building later became Epiphany Apostolic High School, which closed its doors in 1975. It is now the site of a public middle school.

Presidents

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After Charles Uncles the young priest Dominic James Manley 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.[5] Lambert A. Welbers served as president from 1901 to March 1903. He later became pastor of St. Peter Claver Mission in Texas.[6] At Epiphany, he was succeeded by Robert J. Carse, who went on to become pastor of St. Patrick Parish in St. Charles, Illinois for 41 years and died in 1950.[7] Another early president was Thomas B. Donovan and then Thomas J. Duffy around 1909.[8]

For several decades in the early to late 20th century, racial politics led to the seminary being closed to most African Americans.[1]

Notable alumni

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Epiphany Apostolic College, formerly Josephite Collegiate Seminary, Newburgh, New York, Undated". cdm16280.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Transcripts from Closed Colleges". New York State Education Department. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Pilot, Volume 56, Number 45 — 11 November 1893 — Boston College Newspapers". newspapers.bc.edu. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "History". St. Patrick Parish. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  8. ^ Brill, Michael (21 August 2023). Some Scattered Notes on the Religious Institutions of Baltimore, Maryland and Surrounding Counties. p. 353.
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