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Lynch Foundation Awards $1 Million Grant

The Lynch Foundation Board of Trustees just awarded a $1 Million Grant to the Seminary, the largest grant received in the seminary’s forty year history. The monies will be used to endow the Chair of the Field Education Director and to partially fund expanded pastoral studies workshops and meeting room refurbishments. Field Education provides an opportunity for each seminarian to apply his academic and spiritual formation, as well as human skills in pastoral situations found within a parish, hospital, or prison setting.

In awarding the grant, the Foundation Trustees cited that they are "“impressed by the number and quality of seminarians being served at Blessed John XXIII National Seminary. The Trustees are proud to be involved with such a dynamic organization.”

The seminary currently enrolls sixty-five seminarians from 33 dioceses, one religious order and a religious mission. Blessed John XXIII is the only seminary in the United States administered by diocesan priests preparing the older, second-career candidate for the priesthood.

Reverend Peter J. Uglietto, Rector/President of Blessed John XXIII, thanked Carolyn and Peter Lynch, and the Foundation, for their confidence in the seminary’s priestly formation program, which has led to this generous award. Reverend James M. DiPerri, the incumbent Field Education Director, is the first faculty member appointed to the newly created Carolyn and Peter Lynch Chair of Pastoral Formation.

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