Maryknoll
Maryknoll
Founded, with the sanction of Pope Pius X, by Reverend Thomas F. Price and Reverend James A. Walsh, 1911 ; formally incorporated under the seal of the State of New York, 1912 ; brought under the immediate jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples which approved the rule of the society for ten years from 1915 . The first house, established at Hawthorne, New York, was only temporary, being transferred to the permanent seminary at Ossining, New York, 1912 . In 1913 the Venard Apostolic School, a training college for Maryknoll, was opened at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and acquired permanent quarters in 1916 . A second preparatory school was opened in 1926 at Los Altos, California . A procure was established at San Francisco, 1917 , as Maryknoll headquarters on the Pacific coast and as a station for traveling missioners. The first detachment of missionaries left for China , September, 1918 , having been preceded in 1917 by their Superior, Father Walsh. At first under the Canton Vicariate, the Maryknoll mission field became independent in 1926 with three missions in China: Wuchow, Kaying, and the Prefecture Apostolic of Kongmoon, erected, 1924 ; an area in the northwestern province of Pengyang, Korea, embracing one-fifth of all Korea, in the Vicariate of Seoul, assigned by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples in 1922 ; and a mission in Manchuria, established, 1925 . See also the Maryknoll web site .