After 118 years, the Sulpicians, who have administered and taught at St Patrick's Seminary & University in the San Francisco Archdiocese, will withdraw completely from the seminary at the end of this academic year.
The abrupt announcement on October 21 by the community's American provincial, Fr John C Kemper, to Archbishop Salvatore J Cordileone will sever a relationship with the Society of St Sulpice that began with the Menlo Park seminary's founding in 1898.
The Sulpicians are a society of apostolic life, composed of diocesan priests who serve as educators of seminarians and priests.
