Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology in

Wickliffe, Ohio Wickliffe is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. The population was 12,750 at the 2010 census. A post office called Wickliffe has been in operation since 1843. The city was named after Charles A. Wickliffe, 11th United States Postmaste ...

, is a

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that serves the

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. It was established in 1848 by the first bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland,

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Schools

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(as of 2021), that are named All Saints, Borromeo College, and Integrations Treatment Center.

History

Bishop Louis Amadeus Rappe established the seminary in

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in 1848 as St. Francis de Sales Seminary, a name it used for only a short time before becoming Saint Mary Seminary. In its first years, the seminary was housed in a former

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, but in 1859 it was moved to a new purpose-built structure at the corner of Lake and Hamilton Streets in Cleveland. During the 1920s, the institution moved again, to a new building at Superior and Ansel Roads in Cleveland. In 1922, the institutional focus was changed to a college undergraduate program, meaning that seminarians from Cleveland studied

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at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in

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. However, the Cleveland seminary program resumed in 1929, and from 1929 to 1954, the Cleveland institution offered both undergraduate education and graduate theology training.

Borromeo College

In 1954, a separate undergraduate college program, known as Borromeo College (or Borromeo College Seminary), was started in Wickliffe on a campus formerly occupied by Marycrest School. Borromeo offered a

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program and awarded

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s to male students considering the possibility of entering the priesthood. In 1990 the St. Mary Seminary programs were moved to the Wickliffe location, while the Borromeo undergraduate program continues at

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Programs

The seminary's main mission is to prepare students for

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hood. It awards

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s in theology and divinity, as well as a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.). As of 2009, about 130 students were enrolled.

Accreditation

It has

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from the

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of the

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and is an accredited member of the

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References

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