Nashotah House is an
Anglican seminary
A seminary, school of theology, theological seminary, or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students (sometimes called ''seminarians'') in scripture, theology, generally to prepare them for ordination to serve as clergy ...
in
Nashotah, Wisconsin
Nashotah is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,395 at the 2010 census. The village took its name from the nearby Nashotah Lakes.
Education
Nashotah House, a seminary of The Episcopal Church, is in Nasho ...
. The seminary opened in 1842
[ and received its official charter in 1847. The institution is independent and generally regarded as one of the more theologically ]conservative
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seminaries in the Episcopal Church (United States)
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. It is also officially recognized by the Anglican Church in North America
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. Its campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2017.
History
Nashotah House was founded by three young deacons of the Episcopal Church: James Lloyd Breck
James Lloyd Breck (June 27, 1818 – April 2, 1876) was a priest, educator, and missionary of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Breck is commemorated on April 2 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.
Early life and education
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, William Adams, and John Henry Hobart, Jr., who were all recent graduates of the General Theological Seminary
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in New York City
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, at the bidding of Bishop Jackson Kemper
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. Gustaf Unonius was the first graduate.
Nashotah House was, from the beginning, a center for High Church
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thought and discipline. Breck, the first dean, was highly committed to the principles of the Oxford Movement. Later, noted professors such as James DeKoven would bring Anglo-Catholic
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The term was coined in the early 19th century, although movements emphasising the Catholic nature of Anglica ...
worship and practice to the seminary. This began with the daily celebration of the Eucharist
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as well as the use of vestments
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, candles, and incense.
Nashotah House considers itself to be within the orthodox Anglo-Catholic tradition. Overall, the faculty support traditional theology and conceptions of Christian doctrine in opposition to liberal theologies. Graduates themselves come from a variety of jurisdictions both inside and outside of the Episcopal Church. Nashotah House sees its mission to form priests and church leaders from all over the Anglican Communion
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.
In February 2014, Bishop Edward L. Salmon, Jr. invited Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
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, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, to preach at the school. The decision was condemned by the seminary's largely conservative supporters who cited Schori's tactics of suing parishes that left the ECUSA over doctrinal matters, as well as what they considered her heretical views. In response, two bishops who were members of the Nashotah House Board of Trustees resigned or distanced themselves from the school.
Academics
Nashotah House offers degree and certificate programs aimed at training clergy and lay leaders for ministries in the Anglican Communion
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:
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(D.Min.)
*Master of Sacred Theology
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(S.T.M.)
* Master of Divinity (M.Div.)
*Master of Pastoral Ministry (M.P.M.)
*Master of Theological Studies
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(M.T.S.)
*Master of Arts
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in Ministry (M.A. in Ministry)
It also offers a one-year certificate program in Anglican studies, geared toward students who have received an M.Div. from a non-Anglican institution and wish to be ordained within the Anglican tradition. The Master of Pastoral Ministry and the M.A. in Ministry degree may be earned through a combination of residential and online study. The D.Min., S.T.M., M.Div., M.P.M., M.T.S. and M.A. in Ministry degrees are accredited
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by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Campus
The property of the Nashotah House Theological Seminary covers 365 acres (148 ha) of land.
The main buildings of the seminary include, from oldest:
* Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, designed by James Douglas in Gothic Revival style and built in 1862.
*Webb Hall (faculty and guest housing, the Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul), Gothic Revival style, built 1865 and added to in 1926 and 1950.
*Shelton Hall (student housing), Gothic Revival style, built in 1869. Photo in box above.
*Sabine Hall (faculty offices, student housing), designed by Alexander Eschweiler
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in Gothic Revival style, built in 1892, and expanded in 1910.
*Lewis Hall (administration and faculty offices, the Saint Francis Oratory), designed by Eschweiler in Gothic Revival style and built in 1892.
*Frances Donaldson Memorial Library, designed by John B. Sutcliffe in Collegiate Gothic style, built in 1911, and expanded in 1982.
*Kemper Hall (classrooms, student housing, gymnasium), designed by Eschweiler & Eschweiler in Neogothic Revival style and built in 1956.
*James Lloyd Breck Refectory, designed by Eschweiler & Eschweiler and built in 1965.
There are also apartments for both single and married students, and several houses for the dean and other faculty, as well as maintenance facilities.
Construction has been completed on a substantial addition to the refectory. The newly dubbed Adams Hall includes a large meeting hall and additional classrooms.
Student life
Nashotah began as a community inspired by traditional monastic life of prayer, work, and study. James Lloyd Breck
James Lloyd Breck (June 27, 1818 – April 2, 1876) was a priest, educator, and missionary of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Breck is commemorated on April 2 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.
Early life and education
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's vision was to create a center for Christian formation in the (then) wilderness that would also be movement to propagate other communities for the purpose of evangelizing the frontier. Today, much of this vision remains intact and students still live a Benedictine cycle of prayer, work, and study. The life of the Seminary seeks to form the character of priests and leaders into the image of Christ. Various students have been involved in mission work around the Anglican Communion as well.
"Seminarians are invited to participate in an ascetic, disciplined, prayerful season of spiritual growth in Christ" in which they "practice the Benedictine Rule
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The spirit of Saint Benedict's Ru ...
of daily prayer, labor, and study."A Holy Renaissance
/ref> All students have work crew assignments - cleaning bathrooms, mowing lawns, sweeping floors and taking other chores. Daily routine includes Morning Prayer, Mass, breakfast, classes, lunch, and Solemn Evensong. Always anticipated on the campus is the annual
St. Laurence Cup, a flag football
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game played against students from Sacred Heart School of Theology and St. Francis Seminary (Wisconsin).[The Missioner, Advent 2009](_blank)
"Sacred Heartbreaker: Anglicans Fall to Romans 14-6", p. 7. The formerly annual Lavabo Bowl game was played against Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (SWTS) was a seminary of the Episcopal Church, located in Evanston, Illinois.
It ceased operations as a residential seminary granting the Master of Divinity degree in May 2010, and in January 2012 it moved ...
which stopped granting residential Master of Divinity degrees in 2010 after ceasing to accept new M.Div. seminarians in 2008Seabury-Western Theological Seminary
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary (SWTS) was a seminary of the Episcopal Church, located in Evanston, Illinois.
It ceased operations as a residential seminary granting the Master of Divinity degree in May 2010, and in January 2012 it moved ...
Notable alumni
* Keith Ackerman (born 1946), Bishop of Quincy
* Robert Duncan, archbishop, Anglican Church in North America
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; honorary doctorate
* Louis Falk (born 1935), bishop, Anglican Church in America
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* Richard F. Grein (born 1934) bishop of Kansas and New York
* Daniel W. Herzog (born 1941), Bishop of Albany
* William Wallace Horstick (1902-1973), Bishop of Eau Claire
*Benjamin Franklin Price Ivins
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Early life and education
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(1884-1962), Bishop of Milwaukee
* Russell Jacobus (born 1944), Bishop of Fond du Lac
* Charles Jenkins (1951–2021), Bishop of Louisiana
* Greg Kerr-Wilson, archbishop of the Diocese of Calgary, metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land, Anglican Church of Canada
* Christopher Kovacevich (1928–2010), metropolitan of Chicago, Serbian Orthodox Church
*William Jay Lambert III
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, bishop of Eau Claire
*Jeffrey Lee
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, bishop of Chicago
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* Charles Wesley Leffingwell (1840-1928), editor of ''The Living Church
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* Edwin M. Leidel, Jr., provisional bishop of Eau Claire
* William H. Love (born 1957), bishop of Albany
* Taylor Marshall, Catholic convert, spiritual writer
* Esau McCaulley, African American
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biblical scholar at Wheaton College (Illinois)
* John McKim (1852-1936), bishop of North Tokyo
* Don Moon (born 1936), physicist, president of Shimer College
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*James Orin Mote James Orin Mote (January 27, 1922 – April 29, 2006) was a founding member of the Continuing Anglican movement. An alumnus of Canterbury College (Danville, Indiana) and Nashotah House Theological Seminary, he was consecrated in the Anglican Catholi ...
(1922-2006), bishop in the Anglican Catholic Church
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*C. Wallis Ohl, Jr.
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, provisional bishop of Fort Worth
* Alan M. Olson (born 1939), philosopher
*Mark Pae
Mark Pae (1926–2013) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Pae was born in 1926 and educated at Nashotah House, Wisconsin and ordained deacon in 1954 and priest in 1956. He was a priest in the Diocese of Korea to 1965 when the diocese was ...
(born 1926), bishop of Taejong
*Scott Seely
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(born 1981), bishop suffragan of the West
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* William C. R. Sheridan (1917–2005), bishop of Northern Indiana
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* Dabney Tyler Smith, bishop
* Harwood Sturtevant (1888-1977), bishop of Fond du Lac
* Gustaf Unonius (1810-1902), priest, author
* Reginald Heber Weller (1857-1935), bishop of Fond du Lac
* Keith Bernard Whitmore, bishop of Eau Claire
* Gary Wilde (born 1952), priest, author
* Hiram Kano (1889-1989), Japanese American priest
Notable faculty
* Richard Fish Cadle (1796-1857), first superior of Nashotah House
* James DeKoven (1831-1879), faculty member
* Donald J. Parsons, (1922-2016), Professor, Dean-President 1950-1973, Bishop of Quincy
* Walter C. Klein, (1904-1980) Dean-President 1959-63, Bishop of Northern Indiana
* Harry Boone Porter (1923–1999), professor, editor of ''The Living Church
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*Michael Ramsey
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(1904-1988), Archbishop of Canterbury, adjunct professor
* Edward L. Salmon, Jr.,(1934-2016) Dean-President 2011-15, bishop of South Carolina
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*Arthur Anton Vogel
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(1924-2012), professor, bishop of West Missouri
* William C. Wantland (1934), faculty member, bishop of Eau Claire
* William Walter Webb (1857-1933), professor, president, bishop of Milwaukee
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* Louis Weil (1935-2022), professor of liturgics
*Hans Boersma
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background, but has become a convert and a priest in the Anglican Church in North Am ...
, Chair to the Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Endowed Professorship in Ascetical Theology
References
External links
Official website
from Project Canterbury
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