Woodstock College

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| motto = ad majorem dei gloriam

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| established = 1869

| closed = 1974

| type = Seminary

| affiliation = Jesuit

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| head = Angelo Paresce

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| city = Woodstock

| state = Maryland

| country = U.S.

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Woodstock College was a Jesuit seminary that existed from 1869 to 1974. It was the oldest Jesuit seminary in the United States.{{cite magazine |title=A Death in the Family |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903715,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101102353/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903715,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 1, 2008 |magazine=TIME |date=1973-01-22 }} The school was located in Woodstock, Maryland, west of Baltimore, from its establishment until 1969, when it moved to New York City, where it operated in cooperation with the Union Theological Seminary and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

The school closed in 1974.{{cite news |first=Eleanor |last=Blau |title=Woodstock Jesuit College Here, Experimental Seminary, to Shut |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/09/archives/woodstock-jesuit-college-here-experimental-seminary-to-shut.html

|work=The New York Times |date=1973-01-09 |page=1 }} It was survived by the Woodstock Theological Center, an independent, nonprofit Catholic research institute located at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

History

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Woodstock College was originally located along the Patapsco River in Woodstock, Maryland, west of Baltimore. It incorporated in 1867, and opened on September 22, 1869.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times (Ellicott City)|date=31 March 1965|title=Leading Catholic Seminary}}

In the 1960s, the college began considering affiliating with an urban university.{{cite news |first=Edward B. |last=Fiske |title=Jesuit Seminary Weighs Urban Tie |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0812F73A54157A93C4A81789D95F428685F9

|work=The New York Times |date=1966-12-16 |page=52 }}{{cite news |first=Robert C. |last=Doty |title=Jesuit Seminary May Move to City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/09/02/archives/jesuit-seminary-may-move-to-city-woodstock-considers-bid-to-join-5.html

|work=The New York Times |date=1967-09-02 |page=15 }}

The argument to move the school into a city and place it in affiliation with a broader network of institutions of higher learning received decisive support from the newest ideas of theological education and priestly formation emerging from the Second Vatican Council and the Jesuits' own Thirty-First General Congregation. In consequence, the college closed its original campus and moved to New York City, New York in 1969{{cite news |first=Edward B. |last=Fiske |title=Jesuit Seminary From Maryland To Move to Morningside Heights |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30916FC3F5F127A93CAAB789D85F4C8685F9 |work=The New York Times |date=1968-02-28 |page=16 }} where it operated in cooperation with the Union Theological Seminary

{{cite news |first=Will |last=Lissner |title=Protestants Greet Jesuits Here |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/10/23/archives/protestants-greet-jesuits-here.html

|work=The New York Times |date=1969-10-23 |page=49 }} and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Controversies over the merits of the move into the city, specific controversies arising over the lifestyle of the Jesuits in training in New York, and a general desire of the order to consolidate its theology schools nationally led to the school's closure in 1974.

It was survived until 2013 by the Woodstock Theological Center,{{cite news |title=Jesuit College Plans Transfer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/02/archives/jesuit-college-plans-transfer-enrollment-drops-scholars-to-be-kept.html |work=The New York Times |date=1973-12-02 |page=105 |quote=Woodstock College, the Jesuit theology school being phased out here, will transfer some of its resources and assets to a new Jesuit research center to be established in Washington. }} an independent, nonprofit Catholic research institute located at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The theological library retains its independence through an affiliation with the library at Georgetown University, where it is still housed.

Campus

The original campus buildings in Woodstock, Maryland are now used as a Job Corps Center, while the campus grounds are part of Patapsco Valley State Park.

Rectors and Presidents of Woodstock College

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! scope="col" |{{Abbr|No.|Number}}

! scope="col" |Name

! scope="col" |Years

! scope="col" class="unsortable" |{{Refh}}

align="center" |1

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Angelo|Paresce|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1869–1875

| align="center" |

align="center" |2

! scope="row" |{{sortname|James|Perron|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1875–1881

| align="center" |

align="center" |3

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Joseph E.|Keller|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1881–1883

| align="center" |

align="center" |4

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Pierre O.|Racicot|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1883–1890

| align="center" |

align="center" |5

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Edward V.|Boursaud}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1890–1893

| align="center" |{{Harvnb|Obituary: Father Edward V. Boursaud|1902|p=279}}

align="center" |6

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Joseph|Jerge|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1893–1897

| align="center" |

align="center" |7

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Burchard|Villiger}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1897–1901

| align="center" |{{cite news |date=1902-11-04 |title=PROMINENT JESUIT VERY ILL.; The Rev. Burchard Villiger of Philadelphia Not Expected to Recover |page=1 |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E06E1D61E3BEE33A25757C0A9679D946397D6CF}}

align="center" |8

! scope="row" |{{sortname|William P.|Brett|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1901–1907

| align="center" |

align="center" |9

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Anthony|Maas}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1907–1912

| align="center" |

align="center" |10

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Joseph|Hanselman}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1912–1918

| align="center" |{{cite web |title=Presidents - Hanselman |url=http://www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/archives/hanselman.html |publisher=College of the Holy Cross}}

align="center" |11

! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Clark|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1918–1921

| align="center" |{{Cite web |last=Admin |first=ARSI |date=2022-06-28 |title=Catalogs of New Society of Jesus - Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu |url=https://arsi.jesuits.global/en/repertories/catalogs-of-new-society-of-jesus/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |language=en-GB}}

align="center" |12

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Peter|Lutz|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1921–1927

| align="center" |

align="center" |13

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Vincent|McCormick|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1927–1933

| align="center" |

align="center" |14

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Francis|Keenan|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1933–1939

| align="center" |

align="center" |15

! scope="row" |{{sortname|David|Nugent|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1939–1945

| align="center" |

align="center" |16

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Ferdinand|Wheeler|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1945–1951

| align="center" |

align="center" |17

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Joseph|Murphy|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1951–1957

| align="center" |

align="center" |18

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Edward J.|Sponga}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1957–1963

| align="center" |{{cite magazine |date=1968-07-26 |title=What I Wanted as a Person |magazine=TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841405,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202062905/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,841405,00.html |archive-date=December 2, 2008}}

align="center" |19

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Michael F.|Maher|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1963–1965

| align="center" |

align="center" |20

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Felix|Cardegna|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1965–1969

| align="center" |{{cite magazine |date=1973-04-23 |title=The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity |magazine=TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945242-3,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110131125/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945242-3,00.html |archive-date=January 10, 2008}}

align="center" |21

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Christopher F.|Mooney|nolink=1}} {{post-nominals|unlinked=SJ}}

| align="center" |1969–1974

| align="center" |{{cite news |date=1969-10-18 |title=Mooney Is New Head Of Woodstock College |page=9 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/10/18/archives/mooney-is-new-head-of-woodstock-college.html}}{{cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |date=1993-09-28 |title=C. F. Mooney, 68, Religion Professor And Noted Author |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0DE123AF93BA1575AC0A965958260}}

Notable people

:See List of people associated with Woodstock College

References

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{{Cite journal |date=October 1902 |title=Obituary: Father Edward V. Boursaud |url=http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-031.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Woodstock Letters |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=277–280 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321180343/http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-031.pdf |archive-date=March 21, 2021 |access-date=October 28, 2022 |ref={{harvid|Obituary: Father Edward V. Boursaud|1902}} |via=Jesuit Archives & Research Center}}