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McCormick Theological Seminary is a private Presbyterian seminary in Chicago, Illinois. As of 2023, it shares a campus with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and Catholic Theological Union , in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Richmond Ames Montgomery (July 16, 1870 – July 16, 1950) was an American pastor and academic administrator.Ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1896 following his graduation from McCormick Theological Seminary, he held pastorates in Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri, before being elected president of Parsons College, a private liberal arts college in Fairfield, Iowa, in 1917.
He studied at Ohio Wesleyan College and was awarded a doctor of divinity degree from the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1936. After serving as a minister in Allen Park, a suburb of Detroit until 1946, he was named vice president and acting president of McCormick. He merged the Detroit and Michigan synods and worked as an executive ...
During his time at McCormick, he directed the seminary's Center for Asian American Ministries and, in 2011, became its first Asian American president. [6] Since 2014, Yamada was on the board of the Association of Theological Schools and, beginning in July 2017, became the association's executive director. [5] [7]
From 1920, he served as Dean at McCormick Theological Seminary for fourteen years retiring in 1934. [9] He was seventy-eight years old. He served alongside the first president of McCormick Theological Seminary James Gore King McClure Jr. After his retirement Zenos remained dean emeritus. He was active at McCormick Theological Seminary until
Speakers at the service included Young Lords founder José Cha Cha Jiménez, DePaul University professor Jacqueline Lazu, and leaders from the Presbyterian McCormick Theological Seminary (occupied by the Young Lords in 1969). [3] Following the memorial, attendees marched through the Lincoln Park neighborhood to the former site of People’s Church.
A former seminary president defended his reputation as a good steward of Southern Baptists money in a federal lawsuit against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, escalating an already tense ...
Further studies include an STM degree in Islamic studies from the Near East School of Theology, and a D.Min. degree at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill. [5] A chaplain in South Lebanon for several years, he joined the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) in 1978 as Director of the Youth Program, and in 1983 became co-director ...