The Very Right Reverend

Monsignor Monsignor (; it, monsignore ) is an honorific form of address or title for certain male clergy members, usually members of the Roman Catholic Church. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian ''monsignore'', meaning "my lord". "Monsignor" ca ...

John L. McNulty, Ph.D., (b. 1898) was an American Roman Catholic Domestic prelate and the 13th President of

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. McNulty received an A.B. (1921) and an M.A. (1922) from Seton Hall. He received his Ph.D. from

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in 1935 and a Dipl. from d’ Écoles Supérieures at the

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in 1937. McNulty was ordained a priest of the

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in 1925. He was an educator at Seton Hall University from 1928 and its president from 1949 - 1959, succeeding

James F. Kelley James Francis Kelley (July 27, 1902 – September 11, 1996) was an American Roman Catholic monsignor who was one of the nation's youngest college presidents when he was appointed as a 33-year-old in 1936 to lead Seton Hall College and grew the sch ...

. McNulty was invested as a

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in 1950. Seton Hall University's Science and Technology Center at McNulty Hall, containing the famed “Atomic Wall” artwork depicting the gift of scientific knowledge from god to man, is named for the Right Reverend Dr. John McNulty. Monsignor John Laurence McNulty established Seton Hall University's Institute of Far Eastern Studies in 1951 in the midst of the Korean War.

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