An annex of St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, the Sulpician Seminary opens in Washington, D.C., with 40 4th-year seminarians. They live in the Paulist Apostolic Mission House (on the Catholic University campus) and are taught by three Sulpicians and one Paulist.

Nuns from the Congregation of Divine Providence of Kentucky begin their 68 years of domestic care for the seminary and its residents. The now 70 seminarians reside in Caldwell Hall and the Paulist Apostolic Mission House.

The Sulpician Seminary becomes a full theologate with seminarians in all four years of study. The building is dedicated on September 23 by Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore.

The Basselin Foundation is established at Catholic University and the Sulpician Seminary, funded through a generous bequest from Theodore Basselin to provide for the education of seminarians in philosophy and public speaking.

Sulpician Seminary becomes independent of St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore.

Seminarians are given responsibility for Sunday liturgies at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, including High Mass and Vespers.

The Sulpician Seminary Alumni Association is founded.

Sulpician Seminary becomes the University seminary of Catholic University. First-year seminarians take their classes at the University. The next year, both first and second-year seminarians receive their academic formation at the University the following year and first-, second-, and third-year men do so in 1939.

A contract between Sulpician Seminary and Catholic University is ratified, through which the seminary is renamed Theological College and becomes a national pontifical seminary. All academic formation is now at Catholic University, with all other formation at Theological College.

The Sedes Sapientiae (Mary, Seat of Wisdom) statue is erected in the seminary courtyard as a gift from alumni, marking the 25th anniversary of the seminary’s founding. (It was later moved to the front walkway.)

The seminary building, the tower section, and the “new wing” (now McCormick Pavilion) are dedicated and blessed.

Theological College initiates pastoral formation as part of the overall program of preparation for priesthood.

The seminary faculty create the position of formation advisor, which quickly becomes a national standard.

The seminary and University create the pre-theology program (for seminarians who already have bachelor’s degrees) and a joint Sacred Theology Bachelor’s/ Master’s of Divinity degree program.

Phase one of a major renovation campaign that modernized and reconfigured the first floor is completed. The unused seminarian rooms were separated into office space in the new McCormick Pavilion.

Phase two of the renovation campaign, with new student and faculty rooms, is completed.

The newly renovated reservation chapel is dedicated.

The seminary and University institute a five-year combined S.T.B and S.T.L. degree program and a six-year J.C.L. program.

The Providence Hall Priests Residence, with apartments and common spaces designed to accomodate ordained TC alumni who are returning to complete S.T.L. or J.CL. degrees, is dedicated.