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CMS HISTORY
Cardinal Muench’s dream of establishing a seminary was fulfilled by his successor, Most Rev. Leo F. Dworschak. After a devastating tornado in 1957, Bishop Dworschak requested the vacated Sacred Heart Academy on north Broadway in Fargo to be restored as a high school seminary, which opened in the fall of 1962 and operated at this location through the spring of 1966. In the fall of 1966, the seminary moved into a new building in north Fargo, the current location for Cardinal Muench Seminary. Cardinal Muench Seminary is located on an approximately 80 acre campus about ten minutes from North Dakota State University. Bishop Leo F. Dworschak dedicated the building on August 22, 1966.Classes began for both high school and college students in fall of that same year. An agreement had been reached between the seminary and North Dakota State University with the North Dakota Board of Higher Education by which CMS university students could matriculate at NDSU. The seminary provides Philosophy, Humanities and Classics instructors to the University. Hundreds of students have studied at Cardinal Muench Seminary during the past four decades and many of them have been ordained priests. The high school seminary was closed in 2002. The number of college seminarians remains steady into the 21st century. Over 90 men who attended Cardinal Muench Seminary went on to complete their studies in major seminary and have been ordained priests. |
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Cardinal
Muench Seminary is named after Cardinal Aloisius Muench, bishop of the Fargo
Diocese from 1935 to 1960. While serving as bishop, Cardinal Muench voiced his
dream to begin a seminary for the training of priests. In 1946 following World
War II, Cardinal Muench was called to Europe by the Pope Pius XII to be the
apostolic visitator to assist in the reconstruction of Germany. He was named a
Cardinal by Pope John XXIII in 1959 and died in 1962