Special Events

Washington, DC–Saturday, September 8^th, the Dominican Friars will install new leaders at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, located in northeast Washington DC. It is one of the seven pontifical faculties of theology in the United States. The installation will be the occasion also for the solemn laying of the cornerstone of the new, $18M, academic center currently under construction. The academic center will house the Dominicans’ theological library, as well as the administrative offices and classrooms of the pontifical faculty.

Father Dominic Izzo, O.P., provincial superior of the Dominicans in Washington stated, “We are proud to be installing Dominican Fathers Steven Boguslawski, Gabriel O’Donnell and Joseph Fox as the new leaders of our pontifical faculty. The Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception has an outstanding tradition of academic quality and education. We look forward to continuing and developing its well-deserved reputation by new academic programs and strategic partnerships with other ecclesiastical institutions.”

At 4:30pm, the ceremony of laying the cornerstone to the new addition will be presided by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican Ambassador to the United States. The Mass and installation will be celebrated by the Most Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington at 5:30pm in the chapel of the Dominican House of Studies. In the evening, there will be a private reception and dinner at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center.

Father Izzo concluded, "We see the construction of the new academic center as being tangible evidence of our commitment to these new efforts. We've been doing a good job at the Dominican House of Studies for more than a hundred years, and we look forward to doing even better in the next hundred.”

4:30 p.m.   Laying of the Cornerstone
                    Dominican House of Studies
                    487 Michigan Avenue, NE

5:30 p.m.   Mass and Installation
                    Chapel at the Dominican House of Studies
                    400 Michigan Avenue, NE

7:00 p.m. Private Reception and Dinner
                   Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
                   3900 Harewood Road, NE