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.

A few years later, the seminary came under the service of the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart (the Josephites), an American offshoot of the Mill Hill Missionaries that serves African Americans.[1]

Two of the co-founders of the Josephites served as rectors of the seminary in its early history, Dominic Manley and Charles Uncles, the first African-American Catholic priest trained and ordained in the United States.[1] For several decades in the early to late 20th century, racial politics led to the seminary being closed to most African Americans.[2]

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.

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References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ 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.
  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.
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