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Upon completion of his studies he entered the Dominican Order and entered the seminary at Bornheim as a theological student. After ordination he became a professor at the Dominican College. Belgium being invaded during the French Revolution , Fenwick was initially imprisoned under threat of death but later released upon proof of his American citizenship. After release from prison he travelled to England and entered a convent of the Dominican Order . He returned to the United States anxious to establish the Dominican Order. He was received by Bishop John Carroll , who suggested the Fr. Fenwick and the Dominicans who accompanied him should evangelize the vast regions of the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains , including the territories acquired in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase . In 1805 Fr. Fenwick traversed the entire Mississippi Valley looking for a central location to continue his missionary work. The other three Dominican priests were Samuel Thomas Wilson, a Master of Sacred Theology, Robert Antoninus Angier, a Lectorate in Sacred Theology and Preacher General, and William Raymond Tuite. Fr. Fenwick selected a site in Washington County, Kentucky , near Springfield, Kentucky . Construction of a Priory and a church began almost immediately and was first inhabited in December 1806 but not completed until 1807 . St. Rose Priory church was dedicated December 25, 1809 . Saint Thomas of Aquin College was added later, completed in 1812. St. Rose Priory was the first Catholic educational institution west of the Alleghenies. The first Bishop af the new ( 1808 ) Diocese Of Bardstown , Benedict Joseph Flaget , used the priory until the Bardstown St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral was built. In 1819 Fr. Fenwick built the first church in Cincinnati , having previously built 8 other churches in the developing region. On January 13, 1822 Edward Dominic Fenwick was consecrated as the first Bishop of Cincinnati. The consecration was celebrated at Saint Rose Church as there was no cathedral in Cincinnati. He went to Europe in 1823 to raise funding for the new diocese and returned in 1826 with resources to begin the construction of the cathedral, parochial schools, and to found the convents of the Sisters Of Charity and of the Dominican nuns. In 1831 he opened the Athenaeum College of Ohio, established the St. Francis Xavier Seminary. This was the third oldest Catholic seminary in the United States and the oldest Catholic seminary west of the Appalachian Mountains . The original St. Francis Xavier Seminary grew to become Xavier University . Later the seminary at the Athenaeum College was remaned to become the Athenaeum of Ohio - Mount St. Mary Seminary which is the present day name of the institution. After the college was established he returned to missionary work, visiting the Indian tribes in the Northwestern territory. Stricken by cholera he died in Wooster, Ohio, September 26, 1832 . Several schools are named in his honor
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REFERENCE # '' History Of The Archdiocese Of Cincinnati '' by Rev. John H. Lamott, S.T.D. . (1921) |
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