St. John's Seminary (Massachusetts)
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| Type | Private, Graduate |
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| Established | 1884 |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Rector | James Patrick Moroney |
| Dean | Edward Riley |
| Vice Rector | Christopher K. O'Connor |
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Academic staff
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seminary: 9 F/T, 12 P/T lay programs: 19 |
| Students | 139 seminarians, approx. 60 laity |
| Location |
Brighton, Massachusetts, USA 42°20′38.45″N 71°9′47.18″W / 42.3440139°N 71.1631056°WCoordinates: 42°20′38.45″N 71°9′47.18″W / 42.3440139°N 71.1631056°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | [1] |
Saint John's Seminary, located in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is a Catholic major seminary sponsored by the Archdiocese of Boston.
Founded in 1884, the seminary has 114 seminarians and approximately 60 lay students, mostly from dioceses in New England.
The current rector is Msgr. James P. Moroney, professor of liturgy and executive secretary of the Vox Clara commission of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
The construction of the Boston Ecclesiastical Seminary began in 1881, and Archbishop John Joseph Williams entrusted the seminary to the Sulpician Fathers. The school was completed in 1884, and the first students began classes there on September 22, 1884. The Seminary's first rector was John Baptist Hogan.
The Seminary was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1892. In 1911, at the request of Archbishop William Henry O'Connell, the Sulpicians withdrew from the seminary.
Saint John's Seminary adopted its present name in 1941.
Cardinal O'Connell Seminary, the archdiocesan minor seminary in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, was merged with Saint John's Seminary in 1968. In 1970 its programs were relocated to a Foster Street site in Saint Clement's Hall.
Enrollment at Saint John's declined drastically in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston. From a peak of 86 students in the academic year 2001–2002, enrollment fell to 34 for the year 2005–2006. The seminary recovered thereafter to reach a student population of 63 two years later.
During the 2000s, nearly all the Seminary's land and buildings were sold to Boston College (BC), the neighboring Jesuit-run college. In 2001, BC leased St. Clement's Hall, formerly the site of the Seminary's undergraduate division, and it bought the property in June 2004. In May 2007, the Archdiocese sold the Seminary's open land, its library building and several other structures. Rector John Farren, OP resigned and protested the 2007 sale in a letter to Cardinal O'Malley.
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