Former name | Sacred Heart College |
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Type | Private |
Active | 1920 | –1982
Founder | Matthew Christman |
Religious affiliation | Divine Word Missionaries |
Location | , , 39520 , 30°19′02″N 89°19′52″W / 30.31721956387°N 89.331133307718°W |
Language | English |
St. Augustine Seminary, originally named Sacred Heart College, was a Black Catholic seminary run by the Society of the Divine Word in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Founded in 1920 in Greenville at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, it relocated in 1923 was the first seminary intended to educate African Americans for the priesthood.[1]
Started by Fr Matthew Christman, SVD during the era of Jim Crow and widespread opposition to the idea of Black Catholic priests in the United States, the school educated and ordained many of the first Black priests in the United States.[2] It eventually integrated as tensions eased somewhat in the Church, and closed for higher studies in 1967. It remained a high school seminary and novitiate house until 1982.
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