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Diary project provides glimpse into life, work of Chicago’s first bishop
When Bishop William Quarter, the first ordinary of the Diocese of Chicago, arrived in his see for the first time on May 5, 1844, he had spent more than two weeks traveling from New York. He traveled by boat, rail and stagecoach, arriving in the city on a steamship that sailed between Chicago and St. Joseph, Michigan, regularly in the spring, summer and autumn.
Mundelein at 100: Assyrian Orthodox students found a home at seminary
The University of St. Mary of the Lake counts plenty of Catholic prelates among the men who studied there. Now, it can count the leader of the Assyrian Church of the East. Mar Awa Royel, born in Chicago, was elected patriarch in Erbil, Iraq, in September.
Mundelein centennial: ‘one of the greatest seminaries’
When the newly appointed Archbishop George Mundelein made his way to Chicago for the first time in 1916, he met with reporters on the train and said, according to the Chicago American, that his first project would be to build “one of the greatest seminaries … in the world.”
Mundelein centennial: Architecture designed to respond to society
Visitors to the campus of the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary who think they have stepped into a quaint New England village are getting exactly the impression Cardinal George Mundelein hoped for when he began building.
Mundelein centennial: The rectors
The following men have been rectors of University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary:
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