St. Mary's Seminary (original site) (Baltimore, Maryland)

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600 North Paca Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
www.stmarys.edu/

St. Mary's Seminary was founded in 1791, and chartered by the state of Maryland in 1805. St. Mary's became the first ecclesiastical faculty in the United States with the right to grant degrees in the name of the Holy See when Pope Pius VII established it as a seminary in 1822. For over two hundred years, St. Mary's has been owned and operated by the Sulpician Fathers, a community of diocesan priests dedicated to the formation of priests. The original St. Mary's Seminary was first established in downtown Baltimore on Paca Street. Its historic neo-gothic chapel designed by Maximilian Godefroy remains at the original site. It is open for visitors and is adjacent to the Mother Seton House where St. Elizabeth Ann Seton lived while in Baltimore. In 1929 the seminary moved to its present location in Baltimore's Roland Park neighborhood.