Capuchin College is a national

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located in Washington, D.C., owned and administered by the

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFM Obs., now OFM ...

. Built in the early 1900s, it serves as a house of Post-Novitiate training in the

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and belongs to the Capuchin Province of St. Augustine. The college is located in close proximity to the

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, the

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, the Dominican House of Studies, and

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Notable alumni

*Cardinal

Seán Patrick O'Malley Seán Patrick O'Malley (born June 29, 1944) is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church serving as the archbishop of Boston. He is a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2006. Since ...

- Archbishop of Boston (2003 - Present) *Archbishop

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- Archbishop of Philadelphia (2011 - 2020) *Bishop

John Dennis Corriveau John Dennis Corriveau (born July 27, 1941) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served successively as the seventy-first Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and the sixth Bishop of Nelson. Biography John Co ...

- Capuchin Minister General (1994 - 2006)

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