:Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary

The first minor seminary in Chicago was Cathedral College of the Sacred Heart. When bishop James Quigley was appointed archbishop of Chicago in 1903, the archdiocese had only 417 diocesan priests and 149 religious order priests to serve 252 parishes. Anticipating the need for more priests, Quigley formulated plans for Cathedral College, to be located in the center of Chicago. He recruited Fr Francis Purcell to head the new minor seminary.

Cathedral College followed the European practice of Saturday classes with Thursday as a day off. The college charged no tuition for the first 52 freshmen students. All applicants had to be nominated by their parish priests. The faculty had nine priests, most of whom were Irish or German.{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=337|oclc=8411062}} The college provided financial aid to indigent students. By 1905, the seminary had 42 students taught by 10 faculty members.

Cathedral College quickly grew from one to three buildings. Quigley realized that the archdiocese needed to build a larger minor seminary, but the Cathedral College site was too small for expansion.[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/026800739X] Edward R. Kantowicz, Corporation Sole: Cardinal Mundelein and Chicago Catholicism, Notre Dame Press, 1983, pg. 102 However, Quigley's failing health prevented him from starting the seminary construction. Prior to his death, Quigley shared his plans for the new seminary with his successor, Auxiliary Bishop George Mundelein from the Diocese of Brooklyn.{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=340|oclc=8411062}} After becoming archbishop of Chicago in 1916, Mundelein wrote to the priests in the archdiocese regarding the new minor seminary;[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/026800739X] Edward R. Kantowicz, Corporation Sole: Cardinal Mundelein and Chicago Catholicism, Notre Dame Press, 1983, pg. 10

"It is for this reason that in several of the dioceses of the country, the bishops have established the more modern form of the preparatory seminary, where the young boy selected from among his companions by the pastor or confessor, who discerns in him the probable signs of a vocation, the piety, application and intelligence which is required for the candidate for the holy priesthood, even while remaining in the sacred circle of the home and under the watchful eye of a pious mother, is placed apart and educated with those who only look forward to that same great work in life, the priestly field of labor, keeping daily before his mind the sublime vocation of the priesthood, preserving him pure and pious by constant exhortation, by daily assistance at the Holy Sacrifice and by frequent reception of the sacraments."{{cite web|url=http://www.windows.org/mundletter.html |title=Friends of the Windows at St. James Chapel |access-date=2007-01-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070104235337/http://www.windows.org/mundletter.html |archive-date=4 January 2007 }} Letter of George Cardinal Mundelein on feast of Sts. Philip and James, 1916, from Archives of the Archdiocese of Chicago, as listed on the Friends of the Windows website as accessed on 1/10/07

"The buildings are to be in the early French Gothic style of architecture and by reason of the distinct individuality and prominent location, will form a place of interest, not only to visitors, but to all lovers of the City Beautiful. The group will be composed of a main college building, and two ornate wings will be one the chapel, the other the library and gymnasium."

In early 1916, Mundelein purchased land on Rush Street in Chicago for the new minor seminary.[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/026800739X] Edward R. Kantowicz, Corporation Sole: Cardinal Mundelein and Chicago Catholicism, Notre Dame Press, 1983, pg. 16[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/026800739X] Edward R. Kantowicz, Corporation Sole: Cardinal Mundelein and Chicago Catholicism, Notre Dame Press, 1983, pp. 102–3 The groundbreaking ceremony was held in November 1916 and the cornerstone was laid in September 1917. The new minor seminary, named the Quigley Memorial Preparatory Seminary, started classes in September 1918, with Purcell as its rector. Cathedral College was closed. Quigley Seminary was established with a five-year program of study. Like Cathedral College, it was a day school, so that its students "would never lose contact with their heritage, their families, their Church."{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=339|oclc=8411062}}

Enrollment at Quigley grew rapidly, topping over 600 students in 1922 in a facility designed for 500. The archdiocese built a new wing in the Flemish-Gothic style in 1925, raising the seminary's capacity to 500 students.

As rector, Purcell established a school newspaper, The Candle,Reynold Hillenbrand was the student founder and first Candle editor, see {{cite web|url=http://www.vocations.org/liturgicalinstitute/exhibits/hillenbrand%20exhibit/early%20years.html |title=Hillenbrand and the Sacred Liturgy |access-date=2007-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928022525/http://www.vocations.org/liturgicalinstitute/exhibits/hillenbrand%20exhibit/early%20years.html |archive-date=28 September 2007 }} University of St. Mary of the Lake Liturgical Institute web page "Reynold Hillenbrand and the Sacred Liturgy: Introduction", as accessed 14 July 2007 and Le Petit Seminaire, the seminary yearbook. He also created the Cathedral Choristers, a boys' choir that sang at Sunday masses at Holy Name Cathedral. Students activities included the catechists, who served at local parishes and the Beadsmen, a student group that prayed the rosary during free time. Basketball was the most popular intramural and interscholastic sport.

When Purcell left Quigley in 1931, the Quigley faculty had increased to 42 teachers with a student body of 1,030. Quigley's priest faculty were expected to live in the archdiocese, so as to keep a parish and priestly connection.{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=342|oclc=8411062}}

Purcell was succeeded as rector in 1931 by Monsignor Philip Francis Mahoney, who resigned due to poor health in 1934. Mundelein then asked the Quigley faculty for their recommendations on a replacement. During the next faculty meeting, Mundelein named Fr Malachy P. Foley as the new rector.

As rector, Foley urged the faculty to earn graduate degrees and regularly met with students to evaluate their classroom performance. According to Koenig's account, Foley "maintained Quigley as a seminary that saw itself as second to no other high school."{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=343|oclc=8411062}}

On May 18, 1937, speaking to 500 priests at a diocesan conference at Quigley, criticized the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. Mundelein condemned the Nazi leaders for using the pretext of "immorality" and sexual scandals to attack Catholic religious orders, organizations and schools in Germany. He stated:

The fight is to take the children away from us. If we show no interest in this matter now, if we shrug our shoulders and mutter, 'Maybe there is some truth in it, or maybe it is not our fight;' if we don't back up our Holy Father (Pope Pius XI) when we have a chance, well when our turn comes we, too, will be fighting alone. . . . Perhaps you will ask how it is that a nation of sixty million people, intelligent people, will submit in fear to an alien, an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that I am told, and a few associates like Goebbels and Göring who dictate every move of the people's lives...[http://www.chicagotribune.com] "Mundelein rips into Hitler for Church attacks", Chicago Tribune, 5/19/1937, pg. 7

In response, Goebbels demanded that the Vatican discipline Mundelein, which it refused to do. Nazi attacks on Catholic institutions intensified and the regime closed 200 Catholic newspapers.[http://www.chicagotribune.com] Chicago Tribune, 23 May 1937; "Nazis unleash vicious attacks on Roman Catholic Church", Chicago Tribune, 29 May 1937

Mundelein personally recruited Catholic families to send their sons to Quigley.{{cite web|url=http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/082940774X.html |title=Catholicism, Chicago Style (A Campion Book) by Ellen Skerrett, Edward R. Kantowicz, Steven M. Avella, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 082940774X |access-date=2006-11-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928055853/http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/082940774X.html |archive-date=28 September 2007 }} Ellen Skerrett, Edward R. Kantowicz, and Steven M. Avella, Catholicism, Chicago Style, Loyola Press, 1993, pg. 85 In a 1938 speech to a meeting of the Holy Name Society at Holy Name Cathedral, Mundelein said:

Our place is beside the poor, behind the working man. They are our people; they build our churches, they occupy our pews, their children crowd our schools, our priests come from their sons. They look to us for leadership, but they look to us, too, for support.[https://www.nytimes.com] "Cardinal in Chicago calls on Holy Name members to align with Social Justice", The New York Times, 1/3/1938, pg. 7

Wanting to Americanize the many ethnic groups in the archdiocese, Mundelein used Quigley to break down ethnic barriers among the clergy. However, Polish groups did win a concession, requiring Polish students at Quigley to learn the Polish language, a practice that continued until 1960.[https://www.doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1995.tb02326.x] Edward R. Kantowicz, "Polish Chicago: Survival Through Solidarity", in The Ethnic Frontier: Essays in the history of Group Survival in Chicago and the Midwest, edited by Melvin G. Holli and Peter d'A. Jones, Eerdmans, 1977, pg. 204

In 1944, Monsignor John W. Schmid, a Quigley alumnus, was named as the seminary's fourth rector. Schmid expanded the language curriculum, sending faculty members to study in Mexico, Canada, and Europe. He also added sciences and physical education to the curriculum. By the early 1950s, the enrollment had grown to 1,300. Schmid began planning for another expansion of Quigley, After Schmid retired in 1955,Cardinal Samuel Stritch named Monsignor Martin M. Howard, another Quigley graduate, as rector on May 18, 1955.{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=344|oclc=8411062}}

Howard's top priority as rector was curriculum reform. Quigley was still using the five-year minor seminary curriculum with the "Sulpician language-school model" that was started by Purcell 50 years earlier. However, it was inadequate for current seminarians, who needed two years of high school along with the first two years of college. After consultations with Howard and the Quigley faculty, Stritch created a new seminary plan for the archdiocese. It included:

• Converting the Quigley Memorial Preparatory Seminary in Chicago from a five-year minor seminary program to a four-year high school seminary program
• Building a second Quigley high school seminary near Chicago's south suburbs
• Founding a four-year free-standing college seminary

In the meantime, the archdiocese rented the Ogden School from the Chicago Board of Education as an annex to handle the overflow of Quigley's 1,300 students.{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=345|oclc=8411062}}

Stritch's successor, Cardinal Albert Meyer, continued with the seminary overhaul plan. The archdiocese opened the new seminary high school, Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, at 77th Street and Western Avenue, in 1961, with Howard as its first rector. The new seminary was located on {{convert|40|acre|adj=on}} campus that included the Quigley South Chapel of the Sacred Heart. Meyer dedicated Quigley South on September 13, 1962.{{cite book |title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago |publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago |year=1981 |editor=Koenig, Harry C. |volume=I |location=Chicago, Ill. |page=354 |oclc=8411062}}

The original Quigley Memorial Preparatory Seminary now became the Quigley Preparatory Seminary North, with Monsignor John P. O'Donnell, a Quigley graduate, as its rector. The college seminary, later known as Niles College, opened in late 1961.{{cite book |title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago |year=1981 |publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago |editor=Koenig, Harry C. |location=Chicago, Ill. |volume=I |page=346 |oclc=8411062}} For a short period in the early 1960s, the two Quigley campuses held joint events, including graduation ceremonies, to instill among the students the spirit of sharing one school.{{cite web|url=http://www.quigley.org/ |title=Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary |access-date=2007-05-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070424131759/http://www.quigley.org/ |archive-date=24 April 2007 }} Quigley: One Hundred Years of Memories, 1905–2005, Taylor Publishing, Dallas, 2006, pg. 35

As rector of Quigley North, O'Donnell encouraged his faculty to seek graduate degrees from many universities. Meyer continued the practice of appointing priests as faculty at the two Quigley seminaries, believing that "young seminarians needed a good number of priest-models to make an intelligent decision about their vocations."{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=348|oclc=8411062}} In 1965, Quigley North earned accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Both seminaries took steps to introduce Advanced Placement classes in their curriculums.

During the 1960s, Quigley North and South started experiencing declines in enrollment. Quigley North saw its freshman class decline from 256 in 1962 to 130 in 1967.{{cite book|title=Caritas Christi Urget Nos: A History of the Offices, Agencies, and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Chicago|year=1981|publisher=Archdiocese of Chicago|editor=Koenig, Harry C.|location=Chicago, Ill.|volume=I|page=349|oclc=8411062}} In 1966 and 1968, the two seminaries instituted several policy changes:

• Abolishing the Thursday day off and Saturday school day, so that seminarians and faculty could participate in activities on Saturday
• Ending the requirement for faculty to wear cassocks
• Allowing seminarians to participate in co-educational activities and organizations
• Easing the suit coat and tie dress code

The seminaries also made changes that allowed its students membership in the National Honor Society.

Cardinal John Cody announced in 1970 a new admissions policy for the Quigley seminaries. The original admission requirement, set by Mundelein in 1916, was that Quigley students be educated by priests. Under the admissions reforms, the two seminaries would admit;

• Boys who want to become priests and meet the admissions requirements
• Boys who might become motivated to become priests. Their admission would be based on the judgements of their parish priests.

The new admissions policy also indicated that Quigley North and South should "emphasize the fact that they are contemporary seminaries primarily concerned with the development and encouragement of vocations to the priesthood", and that "a vigorous campaign should be begun, especially on the part of priests, to enroll qualified students."

On October 5, 1979, on a papal visit to the United States, Pope John Paul II delivered three speeches at Quigley South. One speech was directed to the American hierarchy, a second speech to the sick, and the third one to the student bodies of Quigley North and South.[http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/ca3b439da5cee65b.html] John Paul II, U.S.A. -- The Message of Justice, Peace, and Love, Daughters of St. Paul, 1979, pp. 173–192[http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/ca3b439da5cee65b.html] John Paul II, U.S.A. -- The Message of Justice, Peace, and Love, Daughters of St. Paul, 1979, pg. 194

In 1983, Fr Thomas Franzman, the rector of Quigley North, reported that "45% of our seniors headed on to Niles College [the college seminary]."{{cite web|url=http://www.quigley.org |title=Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary |access-date=2007-05-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070424131759/http://www.quigley.org/ |archive-date=24 April 2007}} Quigley Seminary North Alumni Association Newsletter, August 1983, pg. 2 By 1989, both Quigley North and South were experiencing steep declines in enrollment and a large reduction in the number of graduates entering the priesthood.

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin closed both Quigley North and Quigley South in December 1989 and in June 1990 opened a new Archbishop Quigley Seminary at the site of Quigley North. For several weeks in early 1990, Quigley students and alumni picketed the archbishop's residence in Chicago to protest the closings.[http://chicagotribune.com] "Parishioners gather to fend off closing", Chicago Tribune, 29 January 1990{{Cite web |date=2024-11-25 |title=The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos |url=https://www.nytimes.com |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=www.nytimes.com |language=en}} A group bought a full-page ad in the Chicago Sun-Times opposing the actions,[http://www.sun-times.com] "An Open Letter to Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago " Chicago Sun-Times, 4 March 1990, pg. 38 The Order of St. Augustine purchased the Quigley South campus from the archdiocese for St. Rita of Cascia High School. The new Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary was recognized by U.S. News & World Report in 1999 as one of 96 outstanding high schools in America.[http://www.quigley.org/news/usnews.htm] Archbishop Quigley website, as accessed on 3 February 2007

During the period 1984–1993, Quigley graduated an average of 5.5 students per year who completed the remaining eight years leading to ordination.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n1_v30/ai_14273077] "Quigley Seminary: high school holds special niche for Chicago's Catholics", National Catholic Reporter, 22 October 1993. Retrieved 30 August 2007 As of 2006, with an enrollment of 183 students, Quigley was the largest of the seven remaining preparatory seminaries in the country.{{cite web |url=http://www.chnonline.org/2002/2002-10-03/newsstory3.html |title=The Milwaukee Catholic Herald |access-date=2005-12-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516211246/http://www.chnonline.org/2002/2002-10-03/newsstory3.html |archive-date=16 May 2006}} Milwaukee Catholic Herald, 3 October 2002{{cite web|url=http://www.lincolncourier.com/story.asp?SID=6193&SEC=8 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2007-08-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927224801/http://www.lincolncourier.com/story.asp?SID=6193&SEC=8 |archive-date=27 September 2007 }} "Seminary closing signals 'final nail' for Catholic tradition", LincolnCourier.com Associated Press story from 4 June 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2007

Daily attendance at Mass was required of Quigley students for the greater part of the 20th century, following Mundelein's letter of 1916 and John Paul II's 1979 direction quoted above, but the practice declined during the early 90s, when a weekly mass was instituted.[http://www.quigley.org/aboutq/formations.html] Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary website, page entitled "Formations", as accessed 10 January 2007. However, when Fr Peter Snieg was appointed rector in 2001, per Cardinal George's[http://www.chicagotribune.com] "The new shepherd: his flock meets Archbishop George", Chicago Tribune, 8 April 1997. decision, prayer was the centerpiece of Quigley once again. Since academic school year of 2000–01, Mass had been an integral part of spiritual growth, being required three days a week with Monday morning prayer and Friday afternoon prayer to begin and end each week.

The archdiocese announced on September 19, 2006, that Quigley would closed in June 2007.[http://www.quigley.org/Closing/Fr%20Peter%20Letter.htm] Letter from Fr. Peter Snieg, 19 September 2006, as accessed 12 January 2007[http://www.chicagotribune.com] "Quigley families say church misses calling", Chicago Tribune, 26 September 2006 After one year of renovation, the site became the Quigley Pastoral Center, containing the offices of the archbishop's curia and relative church bodies, with a "Quigley Scholars" program being established to support priestly vocations among high school boys.

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• Alfred Leo Abramowicz (Q '37) was an Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago who served as Director of the Catholic League for Religious Assistance to Poland (1960–1995). He was the principal US fundraising and organizational contact for the Solidarity movement. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.{{Citation| last = Ko| first = Michael| title = Bishop Alfred L. Abramowicz, 80| newspaper = Chicago Tribune| date = 13 September 1999| url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/09/13/bishop-alfred-l-abramowicz-80-2/| access-date =31 December 2010| quote = Raised in the Brighton Park neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side, Bishop Abramowicz attended St. Pancratius Elementary School, where in 6th grade he decided he wanted to become a priest ... He followed through on his promise to become a priest, attending Quigley North Preparatory Seminary in Chicago and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein.}}
• Romeo Roy Blanchette (Q '31) was Bishop of Joliet (1966–1979).{{Citation| editor-last = Curtis| editor-first = Georgina Pell| title = The American Catholic who's who| place = Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA| publisher = Walter Romig| year = 1960–1961| volume = 14| quote = (p. 25) Blanchette, Rt. Rev. Mnsgr. Romeo Roy ... grad. Quigley Seminary Chicago ('31) ...}}
• Edward K. Braxton (QS '62) is the Bishop of Belleville (2005–present) and former Bishop of Lake Charles (2000–2005).{{Cite web| title = Chicagoan named bishop of Belleville| work=Chicago Tribune| date = 16 March 2005| url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/2005/03/16/chicagoan-named-bishop-of-belleville/| access-date = 31 December 2010| quote = Braxton was born in Chicago ... He studied for the priesthood at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Niles College Seminary and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein.}}{{Cite web| title = ABOUT THE BISHOP| work = biographic sketch| publisher = Diocese of Belleville| year = 2010| url = http://www.diobelle.org/bishop_db.aspx| access-date = 31 December 2010| quote = Bishop Edward K. Braxton was born on 28 June 1944 in Chicago ... The future Bishop studied for the priesthood at Quigley Preparatory Seminary, Niles College Seminary and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101127032725/http://diobelle.org/bishop_db.aspx| archive-date = 27 November 2010| url-status = dead}}
• William E. Cousins (Q '21) served as Archbishop of Milwaukee (1958–1971).{{Citation| editor-last = Curtis| editor-first = Georgina Pell| title = The American Catholic who's who| place = Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA| publisher = Walter Romig| year = 1960–1961| volume = 14| quote = (p. 86) Cousins, MOST REV WILLIAM E, bishop ... educ Holy Angels and St James Parish Schs., Quigley Prep Sem., St Mary's Sem Mundeleien ... }}
• Edward Egan (Q '51) was a Cardinal who served as Bishop of Bridgeport (1988–2000) and Archbishop of New York City (2000–2009).{{Citation| last1 = Brachear| first1 = Manya A.| last2 = Ramirez| first2 = Margaret| title = Archdiocese to close historic Quigley Preparatory Seminary| newspaper = Chicago Tribune| pages = 3 of 3| date = 20 September 2006| url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/09/20/archdiocese-to-close-historic-quigley-preparatory-seminary/| access-date =30 December 2010| quote = Some of high school's notable alumni: Edward Burke, Influential 14th Ward alderman, Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York, Rev. Andrew Greeley, Well-known novelist and sociologist, Bishop Wilton Gregory, Archbishop of Atlanta, former head of bishops conference, Ray Meyer, Late Hall of Fame basketball coach at DePaul University ... Monsignor John "Jack" Egan, activist known for championing desegregation, organized labor, education and housing for poor.}}
• Thomas Joseph Grady, (Q '32) was the director of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (1956–1967) and Bishop of Orlando (1974–1989).{{Citation| last = Eifling| first = Sam| title = Bishop Thomas J. Grady, 87| newspaper = Chicago Tribune| date = 26 April 2002| url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/04/26/bishop-thomas-j-grady-87/| access-date =31 December 2010| quote = Born in Chicago, Bishop Grady attended Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, where he returned to join the faculty after he was ordained a priest in 1938.}}
• Wilton D. Gregory (QS '65) is the first African American archbishop to be [https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939733579/with-ceremony-at-the-vatican-wilton-gregory-becomes-1st-black-american-cardinal elevated to the rank of Cardinal] by Pope Francis on November 28, 2020. He remains the Archbishop of Washington, DC. (2019–present). Previously, he was Archbishop of Atlanta (2005–2019). He was the Bishop of Belleville (1994–2004) and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (2001–04).
• Raymond Peter Hillinger (Q '26) was Bishop of Rockford (1954–1956) and auxiliary bishop of Chicago (1956–1971).
• Francis J. Kane (Q '61) is an Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (2003–present).{{Cite press release| title = Pope Accepts Resignations of Chicago Auxiliaries, Names Three Others| publisher = United States Conference of Catholic Bishops| date = 24 January 2003| url = http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2003/03-019.shtml| access-date = 31 December 2010| quote = Francis Kane was born in Chicago, October 30, 1942. He studied at Quigley Preparatory Seminary and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, and was ordained a priest of the Chicago archdiocese on May 14, 1969 ... Thomas J. Paprocki was born in Chicago, August 5, 1952. He studied at Quigley Preparatory Seminary and St. Mary of the Lake, and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 10, 1978.| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110531184120/http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2003/03-019.shtml| archive-date=31 May 2011| url-status= live}}
• John Richard Keating (Q '52) was the Bishop of Arlington (1983–1998).{{Citation|title=Arlington's Second Bishop — John R. Keating |newspaper=Arlington Catholic Herald (Arlington, Virginia, USA) (reprinted 20 November 2008) |date=August 1999 |url=http://www.catholicherald.com/detail.html?sub_id=8710 |access-date=31 December 2010 |quote=John Richard Keating was born July 20, 1934, in Chicago, Ill. He attended Queen of All Saints School, Quigley Preparatory Seminary — both in Chicago — and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Ill. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108025655/http://www.catholicherald.com/detail.html?sub_id=8710 |archive-date=8 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• James Patrick Keleher (Q '51) is the former Archbishop of Kansas City (1993–2005) and Bishop of Belleville (1984–1993).
• Gerald Frederick Kicanas (Q '60) is the Bishop of Tucson (2003–present), served as Vice President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (2007–2010), and as Chair of Catholic Relief Services (2010-).{{Cite web|title=MOST REV. GERALD F. KICANAS, BISHOP OF TUCSON |work=biographic sketch |publisher=Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson |url=http://www.diocesetucson.org/BishopKicanas.html |access-date=31 December 2010 |quote=Bishop Kicanas was born in Chicago on Aug. 18, 1941 ... He attended Immaculate Heart Elementary School and Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago and the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein ... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214151951/http://diocesetucson.org/BishopKicanas.html |archive-date=14 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}
• Jerome Edward Listecki (QS '67) is the Archbishop of Milwaukee (2010–present). He was formerly the Bishop of La Crosse (2004–2009).
• Timothy Joseph Lyne (Q '37) was Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (1983–1995).

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• John R. Manz (QN '63) is an Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (1993–present).
• Paul Casimir Marcinkus (Q '40) was an archbishop who served in a number of positions in the Vatican, most notably as head of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (the "Vatican Bank"; 1971–1989).
• John L. May (Q '40) was the Bishop of Mobile (1969–1980) and Archbishop of St. Louis (1980–1992).
• Thomas J. Murphy (Q '51) was the Bishop of Great Falls-Billings (1978–1987) and Archbishop of Seattle (1991–1997).
• Cletus F. O'Donnell (Q '35) was Bishop of Madison (1967–1992).
• Thomas J. Paprocki (QS '70) is the Bishop of Springfield (2010–present).{{Citation| last = Rice| first = Patricia| title = Chicago native Thomas J. Paprocki named new bishop of Springfield archdiocese| newspaper = St. Louis Beacon| date = 20 April 2010| url = http://www.stlbeacon.org/content/view/101822/482/| access-date =31 December 2010| quote = While still at his parish grade school, Paprocki decided to become a priest. He enrolled in the archdiocese's high school seminary, Quigley Preparatory Seminary South.}}
• Ernest John Primeau (Q '28) was Bishop of Manchester (1960–1974).
• George J. Rassas (Q '61) is an Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (2005–present).
• Edward James Slattery (Q '59) is the Bishop of Tulsa (1993–present).{{Cite web| title = Our Bishop| work = biographic sketch| publisher = The Diocese of Tulsa| year = 2010| url = http://www.dioceseoftulsa.org/section.asp?secID=1| access-date = 31 December 2010| quote = Edward James Slattery was born in Chicago on August 11, 1940 ... After his schooling at Visitation of the BVM Grade School, Edward attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago.| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101215004846/http://dioceseoftulsa.org/section.asp?secID=1| archive-date = 15 December 2010| url-status = dead| df = dmy-all}}
• John George Vlazny (Q '55) is the Archbishop of Portland, and former Bishop of Winona (1987–1997).{{Cite web| title = Quigley Distinguished Alumni Award Winners 2005: Most Reverend John George Vlazny Quigley 1955| work = biographic sketch| publisher = Archbishop Quigley Seminary Alumni Society| url = http://www.quigley.org/alumniq/events/AlmuniAwards/AlumniAwards05/2005%20vlazny.htm| access-date = 31 December 2010| quote = Archbishop Vlazny attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958.}}
• Aloysius John Wycislo (Q '28) was Bishop of Green Bay (1968–1983). During World War II and into the 1950s, he helped to establish refugee camps in the Middle East, India, and Africa, and later worked coordinating aid throughout Eastern and Western Europe.{{Citation| editor-last = Curtis| editor-first = Georgina Pell| title = The American Catholic who's who| place = Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA| publisher = Walter Romig| year = 1960–1961| volume = 14| quote = (p. 482) Wycislo, VERY REV MSGR ALOYSIUS JOHN ... educ. St Mary's Sch. Cicero, Quigley Prep Sem. ... }}
• Michael Fors Olson (QN '84) is the Bishop of Fort Worth (2014–present).
• George J. Rassas (Q '61) is an Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (2005–present).

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• Daniel Coughlin (Q '53) is the former Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (2000–2011); the first Roman Catholic to hold that position.[http://www.chicagotribune.com] "Hastert picks Catholic as Chaplain, embroiled in allegations of religious bias, GOP leader turns to Chicago priest to fill post", Chicago Tribune, 24 March 2000[https://www.nytimes.com] "House's first Catholic Chaplain", The New York Times, 24 March 2000
• Monsignor John Joseph "Jack" Egan (Q '37) was an author and social and civil rights activist who marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. De Paul University's Egan Urban Center is named for him.
• Rev. Andrew M. Greeley (Q '47) was an author, journalist, and sociologist perhaps best known as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.{{Citation| last = Tischler| first = Nancy M.| title = Encyclopedia of contemporary fiction: From C.S. Lewis to Left behind| place = Santa Barbara, California| publisher = ABC-CLIO| year = 2009| edition = hardcover| isbn = 978-0-313-34568-5| quote = (pp. 129–130) Andrew Moran Greely (1928-) was born in Oak Park, Illinois ... After his studies at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, Greeley went to St. MAry of the Lake Seminary ...}}

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• Monsignor George G. Higgins, (Q '34) was an author and civil rights activist. In 2000 he received both the Pacem in Terris Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HE4S8Y] Social Catholicism: Essays in Honor of Monsignor Higgins, U.S. Catholic Historian, 19:4:2001[https://books.google.com/books?id=z7NxoN9SS90C&dq=George+G.+Higgins+and+the+Quest+for+Worker+Justice&pg=PP1] John J. O'Brien, George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America, Sheed and Ward, 2005
• Monsignor Reynold Henry Hillenbrand (Q '24) was a Quigley professor and leader in the Liturgical Movement. As rector of University of St. Mary of the Lake from 1936 to 1944, he served as mentor to several activist priests called "Hilly's Men",{{cite web|url=http://www.vocations.org/liturgicalinstitute/news/TIDINGS/tidings%201-1.htm |title=Liturgical Institute: Tidings 1-1 |access-date=2006-11-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928022515/http://www.vocations.org/liturgicalinstitute/news/TIDINGS/tidings%201-1.htm |archive-date=28 September 2007}} Robert L. Tuzik, "The contribution of Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand (1905–1979) to the Liturgical Movement in the United States: influences and development", doctoral dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 1989[http://www.litpress.org/Detail.aspx?ISBN=0814624502] Keith F. Pecklers, SJ, The Unread Vision: The Liturgical Movement in the United States of America: 1926–1955, Liturgical Press, 1998 also mentor to "Specialized Catholic Action" and social action movements.[https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98629835] Andrew M. Greeley, The Catholic Experience: An Interpretation of the History of American Catholicism, Garden City, 1967, pg. 250[http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/zot.xml] Mary Irene Zotti, A Time of Awakening: The Young Christian Worker Story in the United States, 1938 to 1970, Loyola, 1991[https://www.amazon.com/dp/0829407995] Steven M. Avella, "Reynold Hillenbrand and Chicago Catholicism", U.S. Catholic Historian, 9:4:1990, pp. 353–370
• Mitch Pacwa SJ (QN '67) is a scripture scholar and EWTN television and radio host.
• Michael Pfleger (QS '67) is a pastor and civil rights activist.{{Citation| last = Jimenez| first = Gilbert| title = 1,000 rally to fight Quigley S. closing| newspaper = Chicago Sun-Times| date = 27 January 1990| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3981713.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121105070206/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3981713.html| url-status = dead| archive-date = 5 November 2012| access-date =28 December 2010| quote = "I believe the conversation was going on with Rita before Quigley South was even notified, and the deal is cut now", said the Rev. Michael Pfleger, an alumnus of Quigley South.}}{{Citation|last=Connors |first=Caroline |title=Pfleger speaks at Christ the King |newspaper=The Beverly Review (Chicago) |date=6 October 2010 |url=http://www.beverlyreview.net/full.php?sid=2645¤t_edition=2010-10-06 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20101207120045/http://www.beverlyreview.net/full.php?sid=2645¤t_edition=2010-10-06 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 December 2010 |access-date=28 December 2010 |quote=Pfleger grew up in the parish of St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church in Chicago's Wrightwood neighborhood, attended Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, Loyola University and St. Mary of the Lake Seminary. }}

• Edward M. Burke (Q '61) is a Chicago alderman; the longest continuously serving alderman in the history of the Chicago City Council.{{Cite web| title = Alderman Edward M. Burke| work = biographic sketch| publisher = City of Chicago| year = 2010| url = http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/wards/14/alderman_burke_sbiography.html| access-date = 28 December 2010| quote = A lifelong resident of the Southwest Side, Alderman Burke graduated from Quigley Preparatory Seminary in 1961 and earned his Bachelor's Degree from DePaul University in 1965}}{{Cite press release| title = "Evenings to Remember" on May 10 to feature Chicago Alderman Edward M. Burke: Burke will discuss 41-year City Council career and book about Chicago Presidential conventions since 1860| publisher = Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum| date = 16 April 2010| url = http://www.alplm.org/news/apr16_10_2.pdf| access-date = 28 December 2010| quote = Ed Burke attended Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and then DePaul University where he earned his undergraduate degree and then his law degree while working as a police officer from 1965 to 1968.| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101119105009/http://alplm.org/news/apr16_10_2.pdf| archive-date = 19 November 2010| url-status = dead}}
• Michael Edward Harper (QS '76) is a former NBA center-forward with the Portland Trail Blazers (1980–82).{{Cite web| title = Mike Harper| work = bio & statistical sketch| publisher = basketball reference.com| url = https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/harpemi01.html| access-date = 27 December 2010| quote = High School: Quigley South in Chicago, Illinois}}
• John Jordan (Q '29) was the men's basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame (1951–1964).[http://www.chicagotribune.com] "Former Notre Dame Coach John Jordan Dead at 81", Chicago Tribune, 15 June 1991
• James F. Keane was an Illinois state representative and educator'Illinois Blue Book 1979–1980,' Biographical Sketch of James F. Keane, pg. 123
• John H. Leims was a U.S. Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for service during the Battle of Iwo Jima (attended Quigley, later graduated from St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois).{{Cite web| title = Who's Who in Marine Corps History: CAPTAIN JOHN HAROLD LEIMS, USMCR (DECEASED)| work = biographic sketch| publisher = United States Marine Corps History Division| url = http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Whos_Who/Leims_JH.htm| access-date = 28 December 2010| quote = John Harold Leims was born in Chicago, Illinois, 8 June 1921. He attended St. Hilary Parochial School, Quigley Preparatory Seminary, and graduated from St. George High School in Evanston, Illinois, in 1939.| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110516215551/http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Whos_Who/Leims_JH.htm| archive-date = 16 May 2011| url-status = dead}}
• Harry Lennix (QS '83) is a television and film actor.{{Citation| last = Smith| first = Sid| title = 'Er' Player Harry Lennix Returns to the Role That Launched Him| newspaper = Chicago Tribune| pages = 3| date = 29 June 1997| url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/06/29/er-player-harry-lennix-returns-to-the-role-that-launched-him/| access-date =28 December 2010| quote = Lennix attended Quigley South Preparatory Seminary at a time when the student body was only 10 percent African-American.}}{{Cite web| last = Burton| first = Cheryl| title = Back home with Harry Lennix| work = transcript| publisher = ABC 7 TV News| date = 30 November 2005| url = http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=3662243| access-date = 28 December 2010| quote = The road to stardom began on the South Side where Lennix grew up in a strict Catholic home. He attended Quigley South Seminary School with aspirations of becoming a priest.| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629051532/http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=3662243| archive-date = 29 June 2011| url-status = dead}}
• Michael McCaskey was the former chairman of the Chicago Bears (attended Quigley, later graduated from Notre Dame College Prep in Niles).{{Citation| last = Glab| first = Michael G.| title = Tough Yardage: Mike Mccaskey Has Enough Problems Getting The Bears Back to the Super Bowl To Worry About How His Ivy League Image Plays with the Fans| newspaper = Chicago Tribune| pages = 2| date = 26 January 1992| url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/01/26/tough-yardage/| access-date =28 December 2010| quote = Young Michael grew up on the sidelines but hardly seemed like a kid anxious to take over his grandfather's empire, carrying textbooks so he could study in the car to and from Wrigley Field, where the Bears used to play. He hoped to become a Catholic priest and attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary for three years. `'It would be a way to help people,`` McCaskey says.}}
• Ray Meyer was the head men's basketball coach at DePaul University (1942–84). He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979 (attended, and later graduated from St. Patrick High School).{{Citation| last = Schumacher| first = Michael| title = Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA| place = New York, USA| publisher = Bloomsbury USA| year = 2007| isbn = 978-1-59691-213-7| quote = (p.19) Like Mikan, Ray Meyer was a deeply religious man who once considered the priesthood, and like Mikan, he attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary, although he lasted two years at the school, as opposed to Mikan's four.| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781596912137}}{{Citation| last = Goldstein| first = Richard| title = Ray Meyer, Former DePaul Coach, Dies at 92| newspaper = New York Times| date = 18 March 2006| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/18/sports/18meyer.html| access-date =28 December 2010| quote = Meyer ... planned to be a priest but turned to sports after starring in basketball at Chicago's Quigley Prep and St. Patrick's Academy, which won the 1932 Catholic high school national title. In Meyer's first season, he discovered a basketball hopeful who, like the coach, had once studied for the priesthood at Quigley Prep ... As Meyer put it in his memoirs, George Mikan was "raw material with little talent."}}
• George Mikan (Q' 41) was a Hall of Fame basketball player (1946–56), best known for his time with the Minneapolis Lakers. He was named the greatest player of basketball's first 50 years, and one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
• Antonio Munoz (QS '82) is an Illinois State Senator (1999–present).[http://www.senatedem.state.il.us/munoz/index.html Senator Munoz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310131207/http://www.senatedem.state.il.us/munoz/index.html |date=10 March 2007 }}
• Bill O'Neill, American football player{{cite web|url=http://www.profootballarchives.com/onei00900.html |title=BILL O'NEILL |publisher=profootballarchives.com |access-date=18 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150519200325/http://www.profootballarchives.com/onei00900.html |archive-date=19 May 2015}}
• Richard Phelan (Q '55) was an attorney who served as special counsel for the US House investigation of former Speaker Jim Wright and President of the Cook County Board.[https://www.nytimes.com] "Ethics unit ready to charge Wright, Democrats report", The New York Times, 13 April 1989, pg. A1
• Dan Savage (QN '82), sex columnist and political pundit, co-founder of the It Gets Better Project, left Quigley in his second year.{{cite web|last1=Savage|first1=Dan|title=Back to school with Dan Savage, class of '82|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/back-to-school-with-dan-savage-class-of-82/Content?oid=4498120|website=Chicago Reader|date=25 August 2011 |access-date=15 September 2014}}
• Martin Sandoval (QS '82) was an Illinois State Senator (2003–2020).[http://www.senatedem.state.il.us/sandoval/index.html Senator Sandoval] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428113750/http://www.senatedem.state.il.us/sandoval/index.html |date=28 April 2007 }}
• Lawrence Suffredin (QN '65) is an attorney and Cook County Commissioner (2003–present).{{Cite journal| last = Krajelis| first = Bethany| title = Lawyer pleased with career path| journal = Chicago Daily Law Bulletin| volume = 156| issue = 71| publisher = Law Bulletin Publishing Company| location = Chicago| date = 13 April 2010| url = http://www.shefskylaw.com/66BE91/assets/files/Documents/Lawyer%20Pleased%20with%20Career%20Path_Chicago%20Daily%20Law%20Bulletin_4%2013%202010.pdf| issn = 0362-6148| access-date = 28 December 2010| quote = Long before he made a name for himself as a respected lawyer, lobbyist and Cook County Board commissioner, the Chicago native pictured himself working in a church. "I thought I was going to be a Catholic priest", said Suffredin, a graduate of the Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary.}}{{Cite web| title = Larry Suffredin: Cook County Commissioner| work = biographic sketch| publisher = Office of the Clerk of Cook County| year = 2009| url = http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sweethomecookcounty/Pages/LarrySuffredin.aspx| access-date = 28 December 2010| quote = High School: Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110409220541/http://cookcountyclerk.com/sweethomecookcounty/Pages/LarrySuffredin.aspx| archive-date = 9 April 2011| url-status = dead}}
• Ed Zotti (aka Cecil Adams) (QN '69) is an editor, columnist and author best known for his column The Straight Dope.

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