Father Hurst named president-rector of historic Baltimore seminary

Published: 2007-05-25

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Sulpician Father Thomas R. Hurst, rector since 2001 of Theological College, the national seminary at The Catholic University of America in Washington, will succeed Sulpician Father Robert F. Leavitt as president-rector of St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. The appointment takes effect July 1. Father Hurst is an alumnus of St. Mary's and a former professor there. He joined the Sulpicians in 1976, three years after he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Albany, N.Y. He has a doctorate in Semitic languages and has taught New Testament and biblical languages for many years. Before he was made rector of Theological College, he was regional superior of the Sulpicians in Zambia and academic dean of St. Dominic's Seminary in Lusaka, Zambia. He was on the faculty of St. Mary's from 1980 to 1992, serving as vice rector there from 1986 to 1992.

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