Thomas F. Mulledy
Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J. (August 12, 1794 – July 20, 1860) was an American Catholic priest from Virginia. He was educated for the priesthood in Rome, before completing his education in the United States. He twice served as president of Georgetown College in Washington, D. C. He orchestrated the sale of the Maryland Province’s slaves in 1838 to settle its debts.
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Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J. (August 12, 1794 – July 20, 1860) was an American Catholic priest from Virginia. He was educated for the priesthood in Rome, before completing his education in the United States. He twice served as president of Georgetown College in Washington, D. C. He orchestrated the sale of the Maryland Province’s slaves in 1838 to settle its debts. His brother, Samuel, also became a Jesuit and president of the college. In 2015, a series of student protests at Georgetown over his orchestration of the 1838 slave sale led to the renaming of Mulledy Hall. His name will also be removed from Mulledy hall at Holy Cross in 2020. He died in 1860, and was buried at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Washington D.C., where he was buried with his wife, Sarah Cochrane, and their two daughters, who had been raised Protestant by their Catholic parents. His funeral was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Washington on July 19, 1860, in honor of his late wife, who was also a Catholic priest. He is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Washington. He also served as pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Georgetown, and briefly as the superior at Saint Joseph’s College in Philadelphia. In his later years, he was prolific in delivering sermons at the College of the Holy Cross, and played a role in seeing the college through investigations by the Know Nothing Party. In 1843, he oversaw its establishment, including the construction of its first building.
He later served as the vicar general for the Diocese of Boston. He had a reputation for being combative and insubordinate, much to the discontent of his fellow Jesuits and his superiors. He left Italy in 1828 for fear that three Jesuits had perished aboard a treacherous voyage aboard a ship that lasted 171 days, and caused some in the U.S. to fear that the Society had regained a footing in the States after its suppression. He went on to become a professor of logic, metaphysics, logic, and ethics at a Jesuit college in Chambéry, Italy. He then taught at the Romney Academy in Romney, Virginia, and later at the Georgetown Academy. He became the second provincial superior of the Mary Province of the Jesuit order, and then the superior of Saint Joseph’s College, in Philadelphia, until his death in 1860. After his death, Mulledy was buried in Mount Carmelia, Maryland, where he had served as a vicar for more than 30 years. He and his brother Samuel were both Jesuit priests. He taught at Georgetown until 1817, when he moved to White Marsh, Maryland to teach at the University of Maryland. Like his brother, he also went to Rome to study philosophy and theology. He studied at the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide for two years, and spent a further two years as a tutor to the crown prince of Naples.
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