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St. Gregory's Abbey is a Roman Catholic monastery of the American-Cassinese Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation. The monastery, founded by monks of the French monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire in 1876, was originally located in present-day Konawa, Oklahoma and called Sacred Heart Abbey.
In 1927, the abbey moved from Konawa to Shawnee. The school was known as St. Gregory's College until 1997, when it changed from a junior college to a baccalaureate-conferring university known as St. Gregory's University. In 2005 St. Gregory's was accredited to offer a graduate program in business and began offering classes in March 2006. [8]
Benedictine Hall is located on the Green Campus of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It was the central feature of the now-closed St. Gregory's University (also known as St. Gregory's Abbey and College), housing its administration, library and most of its classes. Designed by St. Louis architect Victor Klutho, the facility ...
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St. Gregory's Abbey and College: St. Gregory's Abbey and College: August 15, 1975 1900 W. MacArthur Dr. ... 2 miles south of Shawnee Shawnee: 18: Squirrel Creek ...
St. Mark's Priory (Kentucky) St. Maur Priory (Indianapolis, Indiana): founded by St. John's Abbey in 1947; transferred to Newark Abbey in 1990; suppressed in 2004. St. Gregory Abbey (Shawnee, Oklahoma): founded in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma in 1876; became an abbey in 1896; joined American-Cassinese Congregation
By 1910, the Benedictines went on from Sacred Heart to build St. Gregory's College, what later became St. Gregory's University, in Shawnee. A large Tudor-Gothic structure, Benedictine Hall, was under construction there by 1913, opening its doors for high school and college students for its first term in 1915. An elementary school for boys ...
In June of 2024, over six years since the closing of St. Gregory's University, it was announced that the university land would return to the monks of St. Gregory's Abbey. [1] The museum operated independently of St. Gregory's University and Oklahoma Baptist University and survived the closure and operational changes of the campus grounds. [2]