The Jesuit Community Cemetery on the campus of

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, is the final resting place for

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who were affiliated with the university. It was first established in 1808 and was moved to its present location in 1854.

History

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The Jesuit cemetery was originally established in 1808 at the southern end of

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. The first person buried there was Thomas Kelly, S.J. on August 16, 1808. With the construction of Maguire Hall, university administrators ordered the cemetery to be moved to its present location in 1854, so that it would not be immediately next to the hall. This required the exhumation and relocation of the remains of 46 Jesuits. In 1964, a senior administrator proposed to university president Edward B. Bunn the idea of exhuming the bodies once again and removing them to the cemetery at

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in Maryland, as doing so would free up approximately one acre of land on the campus that could be used for building. Today, the cemetery is situated in the middle of Georgetown's campus, between the Edward B. Bunn S.J. Intercultural Center and Harbin Hall. , the cemetery is the resting place for 350 Jesuits, 17 of whom served as president of Georgetown University. It is the oldest of the cemeteries owned by the university. As with other Jesuit cemeteries around the world, all of the headstones are uniform. Many of the headstones are marked in Latin with to indicate that the decedent was a Jesuit brother, or to indicate that the decedent was a priest or scholastic (Jesuit priest in training).

Notable interments

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Among the notable burials are: * Robert W. Brady * Timothy Brosnahan * Edward B. Bunn * Gerard Campbell * Anthony F. Ciampi * William Francis Clarke * Edward I. Devitt * James A. Doonan *

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Enoch Fenwick Enoch Fenwick (May 15, 1780 – November 25, 1827) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who ministered throughout Maryland and became the twelfth president of Georgetown College. Descending from one of the original Catholic settlers o ...

Lawrence C. Gorman Lawrence Clifton Gorman (September 28, 1898 – December 28, 1953) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who held senior positions at several Jesuit universities in the United States. Born in New York City, he was educated at Jesuit ins ...

* J. Hunter Guthrie *

Patrick Francis Healy Patrick Francis Healy (February 27, 1834January 10, 1910) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's flagship building, Healy ...

* Timothy S. Healy * Joseph J. Himmel * Bernard A. Maguire * Horace McKenna * William McSherry * Robert Molyneux * Thomas Mulledy *

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* James A. Ryder * Francis C. Shroen *

Francis X. Talbot Francis Xavier Talbot (January 25, 1889 – December 3, 1953) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was active in Catholic literary and publishing circles, and became the President of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Philadelphia, ...

References

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History

Notable interments

See also

References