Enoch Fenwick was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who ministered throughout Maryland and became the twelfth president of Georgetown College.
21 Facts About Enoch Fenwick
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Enoch Fenwick was made rector of St Peter's Pro-Cathedral in Baltimore by Archbishop John Carroll, and remained in the position for ten years.
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In 1820, Enoch Fenwick reluctantly accepted his appointment as president of Georgetown College.
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Enoch Fenwick was one of four brothers, three of whom would become priests.
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Enoch Fenwick descended from one of the original Catholic settlers of the Maryland Province, Cuthbert Fenwick.
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One of his brothers was Benedict Joseph Enoch Fenwick, who became the Bishop of Boston and a president of Georgetown College.
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Enoch Fenwick enrolled at Georgetown College in 1793, which he attended until 1797.
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Enoch Fenwick then entered St Mary's Seminary in Baltimore in 1805.
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Enoch Fenwick was ordained a priest on March 12,1808, in Georgetown, by Bishop Leonard Neale.
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Enoch Fenwick oversaw work that began in 1806 and continued until 1812, before being halted by the War of 1812.
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Enoch Fenwick held the position of rector until 1820, when he was succeeded by James Whitfield.
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Enoch Fenwick was required to travel to three other parishes throughout Charles County every other Sunday, because they had been abandoned by a priest who returned to England.
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Enoch Fenwick was considered on several occasions for being raised to the episcopate, specifically as Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas or Bishop of Detroit.
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Enoch Fenwick was considered by Bishop Edward Fenwick for being made the coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Cincinnati.
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The Jesuit visitor to the United States, Peter Kenney, recommended to Archbishop Ambrose Marechal of Baltimore that Enoch Fenwick be appointed president of Georgetown College in the summer of 1820.
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Enoch Fenwick assumed the office very reluctantly from Anthony Kohlmann, who quit the presidency to establish the Washington Seminary.
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Enoch Fenwick divided the year into two semesters, and definitively prescribed the course of study as including one class of rudiments, three in grammar, one in humanities, and one in rhetoric.
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Enoch Fenwick attempted to offset this decline by publishing a new prospectus and placing advertisements in newspapers.
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Enoch Fenwick's administration was markedly hands-off, as he allowed the prefect of studies, Roger Baxter, to manage most of the affairs of the school.
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Enoch Fenwick was officially replaced by his brother, Benedict, on September 15,1825, who resumed the office in an acting capacity.
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Enoch Fenwick died on November 25,1827, at Georgetown College, and was buried in the Jesuit Community Cemetery.