Epiphany Apostolic College
catholic seminary in Baltimore
Epiphany Apostolic College, formerly known as the Josephite Collegiate Seminary, was a Catholic minor seminary founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1889.
History
The seminary was founded in 1889 by Fr John R. Slattery of the Mill Hill Missionaries, an English Catholic society of apostolic life. The seminary soon came under the service of the Josephites, an American offshoot of the Mill Hills serving African Americans, cofounded by Slattery. Charles Uncles, the first African-American Catholic priest trained and ordained in the United States, and a cofounder of the Josephites, studied at Epiphany.
After Uncles, the young priest Dominic James Manley, also a Josephite cofounder, served as president of Epiphany from 1889 to October 1893. Born in Ireland and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Manley died in office at the age of 39. He had been a diocesan priest before joining the Josephites.
Fr Lambert A. Welbers, another Josephite cofounder, served as Epiphany president from 1901 to March 1903. He later became pastor of St. Peter Claver Mission in Tyler, Texas.
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