List of Pontifical North American College alumni

This is a partial list of notable alumni of the Pontifical North American College in Rome, a Catholic educational institution that forms and educates seminarians and student priests for dioceses in the United States (as well as Canada and Australia). It was founded in 1859.

The Janiculum campus of the Pontifical North American College, as seen from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in June 2014.

If the prelates and priests listed here completed their normal course of pre-ordination theology studies while at the North American College (in general, the bachelor and licentiate), only their year of ordination is given; if they were sent to the College for graduate studies or continuing education after ordination, then that graduate degree or program is listed.

Cardinals

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Archbishops

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  • Michael Banach, Titular Bishop of Memphis and Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (ordained 1988)
  • Gerald Bergan, Archbishop of Omaha (ordained 1915)
  • Leonard Blair, Archbishop of Hartford (ordained 1975)
  • Daniel A. Cronin, Archbishop of Hartford (ordained 1952)
  • Philip Hannan, Archbishop of New Orleans (ordained 1939)
  • Bernard Hebda, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis (ordained 1989)
  • Henry J. Mansell, Archbishop of Hartford, (ordained 1963)
  • John Myers, Archbishop of Newark and Ecclesiastical Superior of Turks and Caicos (ordained 1966)
  • John Nienstedt, Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis (ordained 1974)
  • J. Peter Sartain, Archbishop of Seattle (ordained 1978)
  • John Vlazny, Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (ordained 1961)
  • Peter Wells, Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis and Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa and Botswana (ordained 1991)

Bishops

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Denis O'Connell was ordained in Rome in 1877; afterwards he served as the American College's rector from 1885 to 1895, and would later go on to become the seventh bishop of Richmond, Virginia.

Auxiliary bishops

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Other clergy

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  • John Franklin, priest in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois (ordained 1961)
  • Philip Gordon, priest of the Diocese of Superior (ordained 1913)
  • Peter Harman, priest of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois (ordained 1999)
  • Rob Keighron, former priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn
  • Kevin McCoy, priest of the Diocese of Sioux City (ordained 1981)
  • Charles Murphy, priest of the Diocese of Portland in Maine
  • Augustine Schulte, priest of the Diocese of Philadelphia (ordained 1882)
  • Peter Vaghi, priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. (ordained 1985)

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