• Those celebrating 1-5, 10, 25, or 50 years : $75
• Alumni: $100
• Other guests: $150
• Table (8 people): $1,000
• Sponsor a Seminarian: $100 (suggested)

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WASHINGTON RETREAT HOUSE 

• ​Address: 4000 Harewood Rd NE, Washington, DC 20017
• Rates:
  • Single rooms with shared bath: $90/night
  • Room with private bath: $135/night
  • Rates include breakfast and parking
• Phone Number: (202) 529-1111

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS

• ​Address: 9020 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 20740
• Room Block: “Theological College”
• Rates:
  • Single or Double: $119/night + tax
  • Rate includes hot breakfast and parking
• Phone Number: (301) 441-8110

ARCHBISHOP OF WASHINGTON

His Excellency Wilton D. Gregory was installed as the seventh Archbishop of Washington on May 21. Archbishop Gregory was born December 7, 1947, in Chicago and attended Saint Carthage Grammar School, where he converted to Catholicism. He attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary South, Niles College (now Saint Joseph’s College Seminary) of Loyola University and Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary.

He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 9, 1973, and in 1976 began graduate studies at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Sant’ Anselmo) in Rome. There he earned his doctorate in sacred liturgy in 1980.

After having served as an associate pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Glenview, Ill., as a member of the faculty of Saint Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein and as a master of ceremonies to Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin, he was ordained an auxiliary bishop of Chicago on December 13, 1983. On February 10, 1994, he was installed as the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., where he served for 11 years. On December 9, 2004, Pope Saint John Paul II appointed Bishop Gregory as the sixth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. He was installed on January 17, 2005.

Archbishop Gregory has served in many leading roles in the U.S. Church. In November 2001, he was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) following three years as vice president under Bishop Joseph Fiorenza of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston. During his tenure in office, the crisis of sex abuse by Catholic clergy escalated; under his leadership, the bishops implemented the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”

He has served on the USCCB’s Executive and Administrative Committees, the Administrative Board, the Committee on Doctrine and the U.S. Catholic Conference Committee on International Policy.  He previously served as the chairman of the Bishops’ Committees on Personnel, Divine Worship and the Third Millennium/Jubilee Year 2000 from 1998-2001, and Liturgy from 1991-1993.

Archbishop Gregory has written extensively on Church issues, including pastoral statements on the death penalty, euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide and has published numerous articles on the subject of liturgy, particularly in the African-American community.

Archbishop Gregory has been awarded nine honorary doctoral degrees.  He received the Great Preacher Award from Saint Louis University in 2002; Doctorate of Humanities from Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill. (2002-2003); Sword of Loyola from Loyola University of Chicago (2004); Doctorate of Humane Letters from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala. (2005); Doctorate of Humane Letters from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio; Doctorate of Humane Letters from McKendree College in Lebanon, Ill.; Doctorate of Humanities from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Mo.; Honorary Law Degree from Notre Dame University (2012); and the Chicago Catholic Theological Union Honorary Doctorate (2013).

In 2006 he joined an illustrious group of preachers with his induction into the Martin Luther King Board of Preachers at Morehouse College, Atlanta. At the National Pastoral Life Center in Washington, D.C., Archbishop Gregory was honored with the Cardinal Bernardin Award given by the Catholic Common Ground Initiative (2006).

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR SEMINARY AND MINISTERIAL STUDIES
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Msgr. Michael Clay, a graduate of the Theological College Class of 1980 and a priest of the Diocese of Raleigh, is associate dean for graduate ministerial studies and associate professor of practice in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America.

He has an extensive background in pastoral ministry, having served his diocese as pastor of three parishes and on the diocesan level at various times as director of liturgy, vocations, and the permanent diaconate.  In addition, he was the legislative liaison and lobbyist for the two Catholic bishops of North Carolina to the state General Assembly.  He previously served on the formation faculty of Theological College at The Catholic University of America (1989-1995). In 2013, he was appointed by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity as a member of the International Commission for Roman Catholic-Church of Christ (Disciples of Christ) Dialogue.

Previously he was Associate Adjunct Professor at St. Mary’s University in Winona, MN in its Institute for Pastoral Ministries program.  He has served as a member and chair of the Diocese of Raleigh Council of Priests and on the Diocesan Clergy Personnel Board.  On the national level, he has been a member of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, serving on its Board of Directors for two years, and as a member of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors and the North American Forum on the Catechumenate.  

For 30 years he has been an internationally recognized authority on the implementation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and has spoken on the rite and other liturgical areas in over 75 dioceses in the United States and Canada.