Crozer Theological Seminary

The Crozer Theological Seminary was a multi-denominational religious institution located near Chester, PA in Upland. The school, which occupied the former Crozer Hospital (now the Crozer-Chester Medical Center), mostly served as an American Baptist Church school, training seminarians for the entry into the Baptist ministry. Henry Clay Vedder was employed there from 1894 onwards.

The most famous student of Crozer Seminary was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. He attended the school in the late 1940s and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1951 as a Baptist seminarian.

Another Crozer student was Dr. Monroe E. Dodd, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana from 1912-1950, founder of the Dodd College for Girls, and a pioneer radio minister.

In 1970 the school moved to Rochester, New York, in a merger that formed the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and the old seminary building is now a medical office on the grounds of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center.

External links

• Picture of historical seminary building Crozer Divinity School