Editing McCormick Theological Seminary

{{Short description|Presbyterian seminary located in Chicago}}
{{Infobox university
|name                  = McCormick Theological Seminary
|established           = {{start date and age|1829}}
|type                  = [[Private university|Private]] [[seminary]]
|president             = Rev. Dr. Maisha Handy
|endowment             = $80.0 million (FY23)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ats.edu/Annual-Data-Tables |title=2023 - 2024 Annual Data Tables |publisher=The Association of Theological Schools |date=2023–2024 |access-date=April 26, 2024}}</ref>
|city                  = [[Chicago]]
|state                 = [[Illinois]]
|country               = United States
|postgrad              = 215
|faculty               = 8
|religious_affiliation = [[Presbyterian Church (USA)]]
|website               = {{URL|http://www.mccormick.edu}}
}}

'''McCormick Theological Seminary''' is a [[Private university|private]] [[Presbyterian Church (USA)|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, Chicago|Hyde Park]] neighborhood of Chicago. A letter of intent was signed on May 5, 2022, to sell the formerly shared campus with the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago to the [[University of Chicago]]. The agreement allows the two seminaries to lease back facilities on the campus.<ref>
{{cite web |url=https://www.mccormick.edu/news/institutions-agree-on-plan-for-sale-of-hyde-park-property |title=Institutions Agree on Plan for Sale of Hyde Park Property |access-date=May 6, 2022}}
</ref> Although it primarily serves the [[List of Presbyterian Church (USA) synods and presbyteries|Presbytery of Chicago]] and the [[Synod of Lincoln Trails]], McCormick Theological Seminary also educates members of other Christian denominations.

==History==
[[File:Indiana Seminary marker in Hanover.jpg|thumb|Monument to the seminary in Hanover, Indiana]]
[[File:Cyrus McCormick engraving.jpg|thumb|left|The school was named after [[Cyrus McCormick]].]]

'''Hanover Seminary''' was established in 1829 as a preparatory school in [[Hanover, Indiana]], for prospective ministers in the [[Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.]], hoping to serve on the western frontier of the expanding United States. After about ten years, the seminary moved a short distance to [[New Albany, Indiana]], where it became the '''New Albany Theological Seminary'''. When the western frontier boundary moved, the school also moved and opened in Chicago's present-day [[Lincoln Park, Chicago|Lincoln Park]] neighborhood in 1859 where the school was first known as the '''Theological Seminary of the Northwest'''. In 1886, it was renamed in honor of American industrialist [[Cyrus McCormick]] (1809–1884), who had served as a member of the seminary's board of trustees.

In 1975, facing a dire financial situation and declining enrollment, McCormick sold the Lincoln Park campus to [[DePaul University]] and moved to the [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]] neighborhood in Chicago. This move divested the institution of infrastructure while reinforcing its commitment to urban ministry. Sharing facilities with the [[Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago]] (LSTC), McCormick began to help foster important ecumenical cooperation between the Presbyterian and Lutheran churches. In 2003 McCormick reinforced and recommitted itself to its ecumenical partnership with LSTC by building a new building on the LSTC campus.

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==Notable faculty== 
*[[Cleland Boyd McAfee]] taught theology (1912–1930)
*[[Joseph Haroutunian]]
*[[Kenneth E. Bailey]]
* '''Enos Pomeroy Baker''' (1856–1911), 1886 graduate and former president, Presbyterian College of the Southwest at Del Norte, CO.<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Rev. E. P. Baker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/733883384 |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=The Highland Park Herald at Newspapers.com |date=17 Jun 1911 |page=3 |language=en}}</ref> Baker was also the founding minister of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, the oldest African American Presbyterian church in California and west of the Mississippi River.<ref name="LA Times Mar 1908">{{cite news |title=Church Dedication. Colored Presbyterians. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380214571/ |access-date=1 July 2021 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=7 Mar 1908 |page=24 |language=en}}</ref>
*James Gore King McClure Jr. first (President of McCormick Theological Seminary 1905–1929)
*Rev. Dr. [[Andrew Constantinides Zenos]] (Dean of McCormick Theological Seminary 1920–1934)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ahepahistory.org/biographies/Andrew-Constantinides-Zenos-1855-1942.html
|title= Andrew C. Zenos
|publisher= AHEPA Bergen Knights Chapter 285    
|author=    Staff Writers
|date=      May 22, 2022
|accessdate= May 22, 2022}}</ref>
*[[Ovid R. Sellers]] (Dean of McCormick Theological Seminary 1934–1954)

==Notable alumni== 
*[[David Frank Graf]]
*[[Bobby Rush]]
*[[Steven A. Schaick]]
*[[Frederick Wedge]]

==See also==
*[[McCormick family]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.mccormick.edu/ Official website]

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